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Welcome to Northwest Birding! Here you'll find our latest travels to enjoy the rich and bountiful bird and wildlife in the beautiful Pacific Northwest (and places beyond). Our trips involve a combination of camping, hiking, and nature watching as well as birding. We try to find places that have a balance of all those needs. My goal of the web site is to share places I've enjoyed (and some not so much) and hopefully inspire a few to go out and enjoy the wonderful outdoors as well! And even if it doesn't inspire, I hope this web site will at least provide some source of entertainment. Updates: The fledglings are coming out! We are hosted a good variety of fledglings in our yard from juncos to pileated woodpeckers. We had a weekend camping trip at one of my favorite Eastern Washington sites: Umtanum Creek. Along with all the wonderful birds, we saw a lot of wildlife, including bighorn sheep, a river otter, a badger, and an elk. The Deepwater Horizon tragedy took me to Pascagoula, Mississippi for work. So far there's been no time to look around the place. It's been pretty much work from dawn to dusk. I still managed to steal a few minutes in the mornings to see the birds. In April, we went to the Sonoran Desert. We spent 10 fun-filled days camping, hiking, and birding in the desert at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, and Sonoran Desert National Monument. We took our first of the year camping trip over to one of my favorite places in Washington: the Potholes area. More specifically Columbia National Wildlife Refuge and Goose Lake Wildlife Area. There we saw the migrating Sandhill Cranes along with all the other wonderful birds typical of sage-steppe environment. |
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Stain glass palm at Rara Avis Lodge, Costa Rica
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