Subject: [Tweeters] Query: Most scenic and moving birding destinations?
Date: Apr 18 19:46:53 2008
From: Andrea Wuenschel - chyroptera at yahoo.com
I really like Washington Park in Anacortes, WA. Went
there to see the wildflowers blooming in May--native
orchids, chocolate and fawn lilies, and carpets of
shooting stars, to name a few, but found there was
much birdlife there as well: a red-breasted nuthatch
excavating a nest cavity, a Townsend's solitaire,
Sharp-shinned hawk, various seabirds, etc). You can
see a fair amount from asphalt road that loops through
the park, but if you leave the road and walk on the
dirt trails, you'll come to some really lovely habitat
and lookouts out into the sound--it's a great park for
flora and fauna.
Andrea Wuenschel
North Seattle
From: lammergeiereyes at aol.com
To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu,
tweeters at u.washington.edu
Date: Fri, 18 Apr
2008 02:37:24 -0400
Subject: [Tweeters] Query: Most scenic and moving
birding destinations?
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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
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