Thank you, Ryan, for putting such detailed directions up on Tweeters. I
took my family up to this same spot today and we had great looks at 1
adult WHITE-TAILED PTARMIGAN and 2 GRAY-CROWNED ROSY-FINCHes. The
ptarmigan was preoccupied with feeding and was oblivous to the high
traffic of hikers going by on the nearby trail. The rosy-finches were
busy bathing in the small stream.

Carl Haynie
Sammamish, WA
Carl dot Haynie AT pluggablelogic dot com

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> The highlight of the day was 7 WHITE-TAILED PTARMIGAN near Panorama Point.
> There was a female with 6 babies running around. They were only about 20
feet
> from the trail. I sat and ate lunch right in front of them for 45 minutes.
The
> babies were really fun to watch scramble around. At one point one baby
walked
> within 4 feet of me. When all the babies decided to go rest underneath the
> adult I continued on. We came by again a couple hours later and they were
still
> all there, but slightly farther down the hill.
> ...
> I am very grateful to Mike & Diane West who told me that they had seen
several
> Ptarmigans and gave me directions to the area. They were located on the
Skyline
> Trail, just east of Panorama Point. From Panorama Point facing away from
the
> mountain look to the left and you will see a very green area past the
large
> snowfield adjacent to the point. There is a small stream just below the
path in
> the green area that the Ptarmigans were sitting near.
> ...
> I did see 2 Rosy Finches flyover, but didn't get very good looks at them.
> ...
>
> Good Birding,
>
> Ryan Merrill
> Kirkland, WA
> merrillr AT bc.edu
>