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As someone who has a spent a week this August on a family vacation in Seattle I think that I am eminently qualified to write a full blog post on how to bird Seattle.  Actually, I am not really qualified but I can give some impressions of an East Coaster birding Seattle in August which, [...]

One of the birds that birders visiting the Pacific Northwest most want to see is, of course, the Northwestern Crow, otherwise known as Corvus caurinus.  Slightly smaller on average than its American Crow kin, with a voice that David Sibley describes as “slightly lower-pitched and hoarser” though he also points out that the “American Crow [...]

The Seattle Seahawks are, of course, a professional (American) football team, known as much for the inability to win it all as for anything else.  Their one Super Bowl appearance, in Super Bowl XL, ended in a 21-10 drubbing by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Fortunately for Seattleites there is another kind of seahawk that can be [...]

Here I am, back from my first ever visit to the Pacific Northwest.  We had a blast, the family and I, and experienced some amazing natural places, to say nothing of the fine city of Seattle.  To go by the numbers, I saw 79 species of bird while in Washington (150 county ticks), 21 of [...]

By the time this blog post goes live Daisy, Desi, and I will be in the Jet Blue terminal at JFK International Airport waiting to board the plane that will whisk us across the country to the land of temperate rain forests, grunge music, overpriced coffee, and Seahawks.  Because none of us have ever visited [...]

Sara and I awoke to a gray, drizzling Easter morning determined to cram as much sightseeing as possible in our final full day in Seattle. The first order of business, after breakfast of course, was our traditional Easter morning hike. Since we were prudent enough to visit Mt. Rainier, our original hiking destination, a couple [...]

Bainbridge Island is just a short ferry ride across the Puget Sound from downtown Seattle. Though the island, considered the gateway to the Olympic Peninsula, boasts abundant historical and cultural charms, we were going for the birds. We learned through the Seattle Audubon Society chapter website of a terribly intriguing guided birding tour of Bainbridge [...]

Sara and I have both jointly and independently criss-crossed this majestic country of ours, but neither of us had ever explored Washington State. As we were able to carve out a bit of free time and line up first-class babysitting for Mason (thanks, Grandma Ann!) that regrettable situation has at last been rectified. The Core [...]