Saturday the ABC group of 19 birders and 5 vehicles met at 7:30 at the Snoqualmie Pass rest stop and headed east. First stop was Confluence park in Wenatchee where the warmed rest room was used and we briefly scoped the river, yielding a few ducks and grebes, but really less than usual. From there Read More…
Category: ABC Trips
Four Day NE WA trip
ABC Trip report on our recent NE Washington Trip link here
North-Central Washington Winter Trip Jan 2017
Ken led our annual MLK weekend trip again and I wrote up a trip report for the ABC birding site. Here are a few photos I didn’t put there.
Coast Trip Sunday
Ken, Ryan and I had plans to lead an ABC trip to the coast this weekend, but the only date we could get together on was one I couldn’t go on Saturday, so Ken and Ryan led the group down to Ocean Shores on Saturday, and Kay and I joined on Sunday. We met Chazz Read More…
Wrap Up Day of GGOW Trip
Today our ABC group birded Oak Creek Canyon, seeing many Lewis’s Woodpeckers Rock wrens on the basalt columns, White-throated swifts, MacGilvery’s warblers, Western kingbirds, and a good variety of east side birds. It was a sunny and wonderful morning in a very pretty spot. I left before the last stop of the day planned to Read More…
Day 3 of ABC Trip: Walla Walla Area
Today our ABC trip took us to Walla Walla County. We stayed in Pendleton, OR because of graduations in Walla Walla made it no room at the inns, so drove an hour or so to start the day at Biscuit Ridge just East of Walla Walla where Green-tailed Towhee was the target bird. We managed Read More…
Great Gray Owls near LaGrange and More
On Day 2 of our ABC trip we headed first to Spring Creek out of LaGrange to look for Great-gray Owl nest boxes managed by Walawa-Whitman National Forest. Our first stop was to look for two nest boxes off FR-21 where the anticipated polka-dotted tape marking a tree from which to look for the boxes Read More…
ABC Great Gray Owl Trip Day #1
14 ABCers led by Ken Brown left the I-5/Hwy 512 Park and Ride at 7 AM today headed south for a few SW WA specialties enroute to La Grande, OR where we are hoping for Great Gray Owl at a nest box site tomorrow morning. We drove straight to Balsh Rd, Lyle, WA where a Read More…