Hello Tweeters,

My girlfriend and I have planned a trip to bird NW Washington, starting in Seattle. Aside from travel days, we will have three full days to bird, November 8-10, and have the ABA Birdfinding Guide. I hope to get some tips to distill down what's in that book. We?d like to try to make it to the Skagit Flats area, perhaps a quick(?) drive up the western slope of the Cascades, over to the western side of Puget Sound (Point No Point?), and then either Grays Harbor or Cape Flattery. Without a clue of how long it takes to get around there, is this too much to try for in 3 days? Being from the east, we're just hoping to find the more common specialties, not necessarily rarities. Hope to get some pointers from you, especially if there are any "don?t miss it" birding sites. Please respond off-list to the email below. Thanks so much for any help you can offer!
A few targets:

Clark's Grebe
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Harlequin Duck
Barrow's Goldeneye
Common Merganser
White-tailed Kite
Ferruginous Hawk
Black Oystercatcher
Wandering Tattler
Black Turnstone
Surfbird
Rock Sandpiper
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Solitaire
Varied Thrush
American Tree Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Pine Grosbeak
Red Crossbill
Evening Grosbeak

Mark Freeman
Athens, GA
roam2bird at cs.com