I would say that one not to miss site if you are concentrating on
Shorebirds and gulls in late July/August is Whidbey Island where an
incredible variety of species can be found as well as the occassional
rarity. Site should be well described in guides but if not somebody on
this list will probably go into great detail, I will not as I have not
been over to the island for quite a while.
Good luck,

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA

"Birds don't read bird books. (That's why they are seen doing things they
are not supposed to do)." -Mary Wood


On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 HOldenburg at aol.com wrote:

> I will be birding in the Pacific Northwest from late July to mid
> August, and I'm in the middle of our preparations for the trip.
> I've got the birding guides for BC (Taylor 1993), Washington
> (Wahl/Paulson 1991, McRae 1995) and Oregon (Evanich 1990),
> but I find the wealth of information somewhat confusing, especially
> as I can't really judge which sites are best at this time of the year.
> And I've got to make sure I get the selection right, as my wife won't
> really like to spend our entire summer holiday birding ...:)
>
> Can anyone tell me which sites I shouldn't miss? Of course, as I've
> never been to the US or Canada before everything (or *almost*
> everything) will be new, but I'm very much interested in getting a
> good cross-section of the birds of the NW, even though my main focus
> will be on shorebirds and gulls. And are there any good sites for
> whale watching at this time of the year, preferably from land? (I know
> about the whale watching trips, but we'd prefer to do our whale
> watching from land.)
>
> Replies either here or by email. Thanks a lot.
>
> Hermann Oldenburg
> Claudia Kempf-Oldenburg
>
> Hannover/Germany
>