Yes I was back to the Mountain Loop Highway to show off one of our stunning PNW lakes to a friend visiting from Los Angeles. This was my first time on the Goat Lake trail, the trailhead is pretty far down the Mountain Loop Highway, about three miles past where the road turns to gravel if you’re coming from the Granite Falls side. The parking is not far from the highway, and the trail is steady and mostly flat.
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Low tide in Port Townsend provides a feast for crows, not quite the Game of Thrones feast for crows but don’t tell all the trapped fish in the tide pools that. For them this was just as gruesome as George R.R. Martins book. I could probably write an article about Port Townsend birding every year, it is one of our favorite places to visit and a very short trip from Edmonds. Just hop on the Edmonds-Kingston ferry and it’s about an hours drive from Kingston with a scenic crossing of the Hood Canal.
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A little backed up here on new blog posts – but early summer my son and I did a short trip out to the Big Four Ice Caves on the Mountain Loop Highway. Sadly there is not much ice left out there as far as the caves go but it is a great short hike with lots of bird viewing to be had!
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We found a wonderful spot to land Birdie our travel trailer for a week. The Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa, California is a wonderful location to stay or visit if you are in the Napa Valley. We like wine but I certainly wouldn’t say are huge wine drinkers, and while we’ve visited some wonderful PNW wine areas like Walla Walla or the Columbia River Gorge we’d never visited the bay area wine country.
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Nothing wrong with the cherries of course, in fact feel free to purchase some chocolate cherries here. But this was our first encounter of the Chukar in Eastern Washington, something between a pheasant and a quail the Chukar are a bit of a rare site.
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It’s been too long since we’ve posted, and this will be short one but I wanted to give some attention to our friendly local Golden-crowned Kinglets. These little birds I always assume were called Golden-crowned because of their little yellow heads. But much like the Ruby-crowned Kinglet flashes it’s ruby mohawk when excited, the Golden-Crowned Kinglet flashes an orange mohawk! Maybe you already knew this but this was my first time noticing any orange color on the Golden-crowned Kinglet.
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Yes another article not based in the PNW! But in our defense Alaska Airlines now flies direct to Nassau, and since we collect Alaska points it seemed like a wonderful spot for a winter vacation while the weather here in Washington was not so pleasant, and we could do some Bahamas Birding. Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas on the island of New Providence, not the largest of the Bahamas islands but the most accessible.
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An old friend once told me San Luis Obispo was his favorite place in California. He would check for SLO jobs weekly in case there was something to apply to that would get him back to his favorite city. Because of this I’ve always wanted to visit, it is a bit of it’s own destination as it’s not too close to either the Bay Area or Los Angeles but located somewhere in between. With an Elephant Seal rookery just north in San Simeon, nearby Hearst Castle, and the Channel Islands an hour to the south there was a lot to see and do on this trip.
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Well if you already knew we had flying squirrels in the Pacific Northwest then I’m impressed. But have you ever seen one? Much like the elusive Mountain Beaver I would probably have had to look it up if you asked me if flying squirrels lived here in Washington. It turns out we have two species, the recently discovered Humboldt Flying Squirrel, and the Northern Flying Squirrel.
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