Subject: [Tweeters] Query: Most scenic and moving birding destinations?
Date: Apr 18 05:30:42 2008
From: mechejmch at aol.com - mechejmch at aol.com


My two cents:

A closer-to-home favorite of mine?is the Semiahmoo Spit at Blaine, Washington, especially in late winter/early spring.?Set up your scope at the narrow neck of the spit and you have a 360 degree view of the expanse of Semiahmoo Bay on one side and Drayton Harbor on the other, both of which can be jam-packed with birds. On a clear day, you can't beat the background of?glacier-clad Mt. Baker and the?North Cascades?to the east and the Canadian Coastal Range to the north and northwest.

Lucky me, I'll be there all day on Saturday manning one of the viewing stations at the Wings Over Water- Northwest Birding Festival. Stop by for a visit and see what I mean. The wind burn from last year is long-forgotten and it might even snow (?) tomorrow, but I'll be there.

Cheers,
Joe Meche
Bellingham


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From: lammergeiereyes at aol.com
To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu; tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:37 pm
Subject: [Tweeters] Query: Most scenic and moving birding destinations?


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