We all have a favorite local patch, but?which Northwest birding destinations are blessed with particularly?captivating scenery in your experience? Where have you gone birding and been?especially touched by the beauty of a place? We can all find the?aesthetic richness?in individual birds, but often the moments we never forget come not from individual creatures, but from the vistas we enjoyed in the course of a search.

Just working on the olde birding "bucket list." For me, I found the the Salmon River in Hood National Forest particularly striking in an iconoclastic kind of?way; the temperate rainforest at its finest.

Best wishes and Good birding,
Blake Matheson
Carmel, California and Portland, Oregon