Monthly Archives: June 2020

Best Bird of the Last Week: 6-29-2020

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Another week of relative social distancing and mostly missing birding with friends. I did venture down to Wahkiakum County to visit Alcyon Farm and Andrew Emlen, get out birding and record a Bird Banter episode with him. What a cool and incredibly interesting and ecelectic guy. Check out the Skamokawa Swamp Opera band he plays in. I’ll include a You Tube video here for kicks. My best bird there was Yellow-breasted Chat. Two singing males actually. How about you? Leave a comment and help us all stay in touch. Ed

How cool is this. Singing birders. Swamp Opera???

Best Bird of the Last Week: 6-22-2020

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I have really been enjoying reading about our members best bird of the last week. Mid June is here, the songbirds are a bit less vocal, the young are starting to fledge more and more. My best bird of the week was really 3 birds. Marian and I made a quick stop at the Goodell Creek Bridge on Hwy 20 on our way back home from a camping trip near Winthrop. Immediately on stopping and looing upstream over the creek I saw three different sized pointy-winged birds. Tiny twittering Vaux Swifts, much larger languid wingbeat Common Nighthawks, and in between in size, with more soaring and less twittery flight were Black Swifts. Just a really nice trio to watch feeding together. How about you? Leave a comment with your best bird of the last week.

Ed

Best Bird of the last 2 Weeks

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Two of the three GGOW young we saw, one with a vole brought in by an adult.

I missed last week in getting this post up, so you get to tell about your best bird of the last 2 weeks. For me, no doubt. Great Gray Owl! Mike Denny showed Ken and me a known area, we watched the owlets branching and being fed by an adult, and the three of us sat by the side of an old logging road and recorded an episode of The Bird Banter Podcast. An incredible experience. I wrote a trip report on the blog here for anyone interested in photos and the whole 3-day story.

What was your best bird, or birding experience of the last 2 weeks. Share by leaving a comment on this post. I’ll try to approve quickly. By the way, some birding walks are reopening. The Theler walk with Fay and others is on for this Thursday, and Scott had a walk today at Ft. Steilacoom Park.

Westport Seabirds is opening some trips for the summer and fall. Birding in small groups with social distancing seems to be opening back up to a limited degree. Stay safe, but have fun.

Ed