Nisqually NWR

Today, after spending most of the last 2 weeks getting ready to move, I got together with Ken and we went to Nisqually NWR for the morning. Overall cool and damp but not rainy in the AM, but by afternoon it warmed up and was nice. Birding at Nisqually was typical summer breeding birds in Read More…

Nighthawks Over the Prairie

This evening I got out the Ft. Lewis area 15 about 8:20 PM and hung out enjoying the wildflowers, sunset, and listening to and watching just a few Common nighthawks “peenting” and flying over the fields and adjacent forest. Lazuli buntings, Savannah sparrows, White-crowned sparrows, American Robins, Western meadowlarks and distant Swainson’s thrush, Black-headed grosbeak, Read More…

Willow Flycatchers Today

I had been in areas over the last week where I might have heard or seen an early Willow Flycatcher, but today went on the riverside trail off the end of 178th Street in Orting, and heard at least 8 calling both in the fields and near the river. The Lazuli Buntings are in also, Read More…

Ft Steilacom with Kay

To enjoy the nice weather this evening Kay and I drove over to Ft Steilacom Park to take a birding walk around the lake hoping for Bullock’s Oriole and to enjoy the newly arrived passerines. We did hear one Oriole chattering, and I saw a male fly away, but no good looks. Black-headed grosbeaks, Cedar Read More…

Quick-three-birds

Last week I added Olive-sided flycatcher, the “quick-three-beers” bird. Today in just under 2 hours I added Green Heron in the creek across 156th just after leaving the storm water ponds, the at Wildwood Park I heard 3 Swainson’s thrushes calling and one singing just before I heard a calling bird high in the trees. Read More…

Blue-winged Teal Today

Today just around 11:30 AM Bruce located 4 male Blue-winged teal at the pond across Lincoln from the Gog, and moments later they flew out of sight across the river. I got his text whileI was headed for the dump to bring a trailer of yard waste, and we about to skip my first Tai Read More…

LBCU Persists Plus CITE and LABU

This morning at the 56th Street Ponds I arrived just after Bruce and although shorebirds were absent except for 5 Greater Yellowlegs a male Cinnamon teal cruised the far pond and just before leaving several Lazuli Buntings responded to a recording, and one perched for a brief look. Quick stops at Sha-Dax and Levee Pond Read More…

Ft. Lewis Today

Today I got out to Ft. Lewis with Dan Anderson hoping for a good number of FOY Pierce birds and had excellent success. First stop was the dirt road to the right just after turning onto East Gate Rd. The dawn chorus was in full song, but we had a heck of a time seeing Read More…

Long-Billed Curlew

Thanks to Will Brooks who found the LBCU and Bruce Labar who called me while he was seeing the bird, I was able to make a frantic dash to the newly plowed field just off Hwy 162 near 80th Ave. to see my first Pierce County Long-billed Curlew about 12:50 today, get photos, and dash Read More…