Dear Birders,

I will be visiting Washington in early July; I'm going to a
conference in Seattle, but am going to be having a 4 days birding
beforehand over the 4th July weekend. I am willing to travel around
quite a bit to get some of my "target" species.
I am particualrly interested in seeing TUFTED PUFFIN, so would
appreciate any up=-to-date info on good sites for this bird, esp any
sites from which it can reliably-ish be seen from land.
I'd also appreciate any info on NORTHWESTERN CROW, OWLS (any chance
of GREAT GRAY remotely close to Seattle? N Saw-whet?), and GROUSE
(RUFFED, SPRUCE, BLUE).
I have the King's county birdfinding guide, but from that it looks
like I might have to travel further afield to get some of the species
I'm most interested in.

Thanks very much in advance.
Cheers
Steve


Dr Stephen Barlow
Department of Chemistry
University of Arizona
1306 E. University Blvd., Box 210041
Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Phone: 520 626 1317
Fax: 520 621 8407
email: sbarlow at email.arizona.edu