Today Bruce Labar and I hiked a trail neither of us had visited before, looking for woodpeckers sighted and posted about on Tweeters and e-Bird. After a bit of searching we found the unmarked trailhead just about 10 miles from Hwy 410 on FR 73. The trail almost immediately enters a montane forrest that seems Read More…
Ocean Shores Rocks Migration
Yesterday Ryan Wiese and I headed to Ocean Shores and Gray’s Harbor to try for fall vagrant shorebirds and had a great day. We high tide was 8+ feet and expected about 5 PM so we arranged our timing around being at Bottle Beach about 2:30 expecting the usual crowd of shorebirds in the last Read More…
Birding with the Kitsap County Birding Gurus
Today I was lucky enough to have the chance to bird a restricted area on Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County, WA with the four 2015 top e-Birders. Brad Waggoner #1, Ken Brown #2, George Gerdts #3, and Mary Ann Rossing #4 allowed me to accompany them on a monthly bird survey of the private community on Restoration Read More…
ABC Birding Trip to JBLM
Saturday Nathanael Swecker led a trip of 11 ABC birding club members to check out new areas and to learn to navigate part of his Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) e-Bird patch. Nathanael has been very prominent in the Pierce County birding scene over the last couple of years with several posts most weeks from various areas of Read More…
St Louis search for Eurasian Tree Sparrow
As Kay and I trek across America today we spent a hot and futile morning looking for the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. It has been being seen at the Horseshoe Lake County Park in western Illinois, but we spent far too much of the morning fighting with google-maps to even access the park, and by the Read More…
Driving Across Mid-America
Kay and I have now been on the road for 3 nights and 4 days, and have come about 1/3 of the way across the U.S. It has been largely a city trip so far, but we have managed a little bit of birding. The first day we just put miles behind us, travelling from Read More…