I wanted to mention this great spot along the Mt.
Baker Highway. Canyon Creek road makes a great, easy,
ten minute to half hour stop to break up the drive up
or down from the higher elevations. Just past the
town of glacier, it offers a stand of mature deciduous
forest (dominated by moss-covered Bigleaf Maples)with
very little traffic and two very convenient pulloffs -
the first immediately after making the left turn (if
ascending), the second only a quarter mile or so
further, around the corner. On the right day, the
areas around and between the pulloffs can teem with
birds. Most of the neotropicals can be found,
including Hammonds Flycatcher,Cassin's Vireo,
Black-throated Gray and MacGillivray's Warblers. I
nearly always find pairs of both Hairy Woodpeckers and
Red-breasted Sapsuckers. Today I flushed a brood of
young Ruffed Grouse from the roadside. And the river
near the adjacent campground often hosts a Dipper or two!



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