Tweets,

Julia Bent and I hiked up Perry Creek Tuesday for flowers and views. Perry
Creek trailhead is up a dirt spur just past Big Four Campground on the
Mountain Loop Highway east of Granite Falls in Snohomish County [right on
the seam between DeLorme pg 96 and 97]. We had a grand total of 17 bird
species, mostly heard only, but 151 plants [including several lifers or
state plants, e.g., Romanzoffia sitchensis, Stenanthium occidentale,
Polystichum andersoni] and one Common Garter Snake. We did luck out to find
a noisy nearly fledged young Three-toed Woodpecker at a nest attended by
Daddy. The nest was about 100 steep feet up from the trail at ca. three and
a quarter miles from the trail head at about 4700 feet elevation in old
growth silver fir, mountain hemlock, and Alaska cedar [in T30N, R30E,
section 13].

Gene Hunn
enhunn at home.com