Here are some images from the Partnership for International Birding that I (Harry Fuller) co-led in early June. A pitcher plant reserve along the Oregon Coast:
Pelagic Cormorant on rock offshore. Below: Pigeon Guillemot.
From the foggy coast we headed inland to the sunny Cascades:
At Suttle Lake, a Dipper:
At Calliope Crossing west of Sisters, OR, a Red-naped Sapsucker:
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A PACIFIC NORTHWEST GALLERY
June 23, 2016SEABIRDS IN THE RAIN FOREST
October 26, 2010The continental United States has only one rain forest. It stretches along the spectacular Oregon and Washington State coastline. The evergreens reach two hundred feet into the skies, often disappearing in the low-lying clouds. The Pacific and Puget Sound shoulder up to a rocky coastline with scattered bits of sandy beach. The cold, wave-churned waters are rich in critters from plankton to Orcas. And here the seabirds pull out onto huge floating logs carried down from the forest just uphill from the water’s edge.
Last year PIB had two winter birding trips to the Northwest Coast for those wintering birds down from the Arctic. Here are a few of the photos taken by birders on those trips. Take a look, because we are once again offering this great photo safari into the great American Northwest:
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Northern Shrike at Nisqually NWR, Washington. Photo by Ms Jennifer Hyypio.
Harlequins off the shore of Whidbey Island. Photo by Steve Murray.
Pelagic Cormorant and Glaucous-winged Gull pole sitting. Photo by Ms J. Hyypio.
Gang of Bald Eagles patrolling the edge of a marsh at Nisqually. Photo by Ms Hyypio.
Red-throated Loon in Hood Canal. By Mr. Murray.
Rhino Auklet over Puget Sound. By Steve Murray.
Surfbird along Oregon Coast. You’ll wait a long time before this species shows up in Colorado. Photo by Steve Murray.
Some Northwest Pics From Janet Hyypio
March 21, 2010
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Blue Heron, NIsqually NWR, WA
Pelagic Cormorant and Glaucous-winged Gull at ferry terminal, Port Townsend, WA.
Sunrise at Astoria, OR.
Northern Shrike, also at Nisqually.
More Olympians–Avian Degree of Difficulty, 5.6
February 19, 2010
View from Dosewallips westward up the slope of the Olympic Mountains.
Hood Canal from western shore.
Pelagic Cormorants in the fog.
The diagnostic neck and head shape clear enough for positive ID.
WATCHING A MALE HOODED MERGANSER FISH
Cruising Sequim Harbor where the water is so clear you can see the bottom of the bay.
Checking for fish below.
His dives were so swift I didn’t get a picture.
He wasn’t the only one fishing the harbor.
And here’s our band of birders, truly going round the bend along U.S. Hwy. 101:
Partnership for International Birding 