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1 See ring-necked ducks, salmon on Deschutes River Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Belted kingfishers swoop by hooded and common mergansers on river. Song sparrows, cedar waxwings, black-capped chickadees, Townsend's warblers flit in foliage.
11/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 Head up high to see migrating raptors at Red Top Mt. Travel and Recreation
Red Top Mountain, Site 7 from "Sun & Sage Loop" of Audubon Washington's Great...merlins, peregrine and prairie falcons, plus bald and golden eagles. Perhaps spot sooty grouse but count on flocks of northern flickers and troops of "camp...
10/8/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 Sea birds, owls and scenic byway at Larrabee State Park Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: On bay, check for harlequin ducks, double-crested and pelagic cormorants, glaucous-winged gulls. Spy great blue herons in shallows, bald eagles in snags. Common loons and mew gulls come in fall.
9/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Desert canyon hosts birds, bighorns, occasional cougar Travel and Recreation
Habitat: Bureau of Land Management / Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife site with 8 miles of canyon, talus slopes, meadow, creek, Yakima River, riparian shrubs. Best seasons for birding: Year-round.
9/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Camano Island preserve hosts feathered multitude Travel and Recreation
...hummingbirds, and Swainson's thrushes stay spring-fall. Cedar waxwings and Caspian terns come for summer. In winter, spot red-throated loons, brant, peregrine falcons, long-tailed ducks. Viewing: 1-mile Loop Trail leads to viewing platforms...
8/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Take a trip to Leavenworth to look for dippers and ducks on Icicle Creek Travel and Recreation
...deciduous-coniferous forest, wetlands, meadows. Best seasons for birding: Summer and fall. Birds commonly seen: Spot American dippers, common mergansers, and harlequin ducks on water. Trees shelter Bullock's orioles, Townsend's warblers...
7/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 Protection Island is like a city of seabirds and seals Travel and Recreation
Habitat: 364-acre island managed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; home to 70 percent of Puget Sound's nesting seabirds. Closed to public; birds and marine life viewable from private boat or scheduled public boat tours.
7/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 Birds of many feathers at diverse Wenas Creek Travel and Recreation
Habitat: Three distinct landscapes within Department of Natural Resources / Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife sites comprising 2,600 acres: riparian foliage, meadows with ponderosa pines, brushy hillsides. Best seasons for birding: Spring and summer.
6/25/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 North Cascades visitor center has bird visitors, too Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Spring-summer, find olive-sided, Pacific slope, and Hammond's flycatchers; Townsend's and Wilson's warblers; red-eyed vireos; black-headed grosbeaks; and Swainson's thrushes — all on menu of sharp-shinned hawks. Glimpse common yellowthroats and American redstarts.
6/11/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 Gorge stroll offers jays, woodpeckers, wildflowers and views Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Find Lewis's woodpeckers in oaks and pines, canyon wrens on rock walls. Turkey vultures arrive February-March. Listen for western meadowlarks, western bluebirds and Say's phoebes mid-March to mid-June.
5/28/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Tennant Lake has herons in spring, plus fragrance garden Travel and Recreation
Habitat: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's family-friendly 720 acres with 80-acre peat bog, wetlands, forest and old farm fields reverting to meadows. Best seasons for birding: Good year-round.
5/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Everett waterfront hosts ospreys, purple martins, eagles and more Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Droves of ospreys arrive in spring to nest on offshore pilings. Purple martins use nest boxes on southern pilings. Many Jetty Island summer species forage in bay.
4/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Columbia River island teems with shorebirds Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Water's edge teems with shorebirds. See dunlins, black-necked stilts, American avocets late March-May, and again August-November. Watch spring migrants: greater and lesser yellowlegs, long billed dowitchers, spotted sandpipers. On summer mornings, find cliff and bank swallows.
3/26/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 McNary National Wildlife Refuge is winter wonderland for waterfowl Travel and Recreation
...wetlands, mudflats, riparian areas, shrub-steppe uplands. Best seasons for birding: Fall through spring. Winter gets top rating. Birds commonly seen: Some 100,000 Canada geese and mallards arrive in October and November, plus tundra swans...
3/12/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Audubon series offers new "Sun & Sage" birding map Travel and Recreation
...access, and best seasons for birding. Excerpts from the maps are highlighted regularly in The Seattle Times' "Birders' Top Spots" feature. Signs marking birding trail sites will be installed in coming years. The trails and their birds...
2/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Olympia's Capitol Lake has wigeons and other waterfowl Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Fall and winter, see congregations of American wigeons, coots, buffleheads, plus ruddy ducks, Northern pintails, green-winged teals, wood ducks, gadwalls. Listen for common loons. Cormorants parade in Percival Cove; wood ducks forage at creek mouth.
2/5/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 Thurston County's Woodard Bay has loons, thrushes and more Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Bay hosts wintering common, red-throated and Pacific loons; horned and Western grebes, buffleheads, hooded mergansers, greater scaups, common and Barrow's goldeneyes, surf and white-winged scoters, and canvasbacks.
1/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Find gulls on the Olympic Peninsula at Hobuck Beach Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Fall through spring, see thousands of California, glaucous-winged, mew and Thayer's gulls. Find fall migrants on rocky shoreline: wandering tattlers, surfbirds, black turnstones. Harlequin ducks frequent river mouth.
1/8/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Twanoh State Park is a good place to spot water birds Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Use scope to see divers: common loons, marbled murrelets, western and red-necked grebes, surf and white-winged scoters, common and Barrow's goldeneyes, red-breasted mergansers, buffleheads, greater scaups, ruddy ducks.
1/1/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 Damon Point is good place to see raptors Travel and Recreation
Birds commonly seen: Raptors abound: year-round find bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, Northern harriers and Peregrine falcons; September-April see merlins, rough-legged hawks; rarely gyrfalcons. Offshore highlights are red-throated loons, and surf, black and white-winged scoters.
12/11/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results