Owls, owls, owls, owls, owls.
The Snowy Owl I’d missed a few weeks prior was still being sighted out in eastern Washington. I felt inspired to try again. Luckily, so did Jen, Jacob, and the rest of their pack. We left our respective homes at 3am to meet in Kennewick by 8am. By that time I was buzzing from lack…
Bonus zono
I birded so efficiently at the coast it left me ample time the next day to look for a rare Harris’s Sparrow. It was a first-year bird found by James Cook along Sundial Loop Trail near the Troutdale Airport. It’d been a while since I birded this hotspot. My first trip in the spring of 2015 I biked there and…
Birding in black-and-white
Last weekend the forecast predicted heavy rain and winds on the coast. I believe it read “rain and dangerously windy.” Sounds like perfect birding weather to me. With only the weekends to bird, sometimes I have to take what I can get and this weekend I took it. It seemed milder than predicted when I…