Washington
August - September 2021
Links
Stats
- National Parks
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2
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- North Cascades
- Olympic
- State Park Campgrounds
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2
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- Fort Worther
- Ocean City
- Steps
- 241150
- Miles Walked
- 122.7
- Floors Climbed
- 390
Birds
Checklists: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18| # | Species |
| 46 | gull sp. |
| 35 | American Crow |
| 31 | American Robin |
| 24 | Violet-green Swallow |
| 21 | Dark-eyed Junco |
| 20 | Red-necked Phalarope
* New to life list!
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| 16 | Least Sandpiper
* New to life list!
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| 13 | Red-breasted Nuthatch |
| 13 | Barn Swallow |
| 12 | Vaux's Swift |
| 10 | Pelagic Cormorant |
| 10 | Great Blue Heron |
| 10 | Double-crested Cormorant |
| 9 | Townsend's Warbler |
| 9 | Hairy Woodpecker |
| 9 | Canada Goose |
| 8 | Wilson's Warbler
* New to life list!
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| 8 | Chestnut-backed Chickadee
* New to life list!
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| 7 | Steller's Jay |
| 6 | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| 6 | Bonaparte's Gull |
| 5 | sparrow sp. |
| 5 | Song Sparrow |
| 5 | Pigeon Guillemot
* New to life list!
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| 4 | Osprey |
| 4 | Golden-crowned Kinglet
* New to life list!
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| 4 | Black-capped Chickadee |
| 3 | Cedar Waxwing |
| 3 | Bushtit |
| 3 | Brown Creeper |
| 3 | Black Turnstone
* New to life list!
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| 3 | Belted Kingfisher
* New to life list!
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| 3 | Anna's Hummingbird |
| 2 | White-crowned Sparrow |
| 2 | Semipalmated Plover
* New to life list!
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| 2 | Red-breasted Sapsucker
* New to life list!
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| 2 | Pacific Wren
* New to life list!
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| 2 | Downy Woodpecker |
| 2 | Black-headed Grosbeak
* New to life list!
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| 1 | hummingbird sp. |
| 1 | Western Tanager |
| 1 | Warbling Vireo |
| 1 | Varied Thrush/American Robin |
| 1 | Turkey Vulture |
| 1 | Townsend's/Hermit Warbler
* New to life list!
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| 1 | Rufous Hummingbird
* New to life list!
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| 1 | Pacific-slope Flycatcher
* New to life list!
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| 1 | Northern Harrier |
| 1 | Common Raven |
| 1 | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| 1 | Black-throated Gray Warbler
* New to life list!
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A trailer camper trip with Adrienne to visit two National Parks and Seattle
Our first trip towing a trailer. We rented a ridiculously large truck (because it's hard to rent a reasonable vehicle that you can tow with) and picked up a 16ft Scamp trailer in Tacoma and then took it into the north Cascades.
It's surprisingly difficult to get to North Cascades National Park proper, but the National Park complex has several other units. We camped in Ross Lake National Recreation Area and visited parts of the surrounding National Forests. One of our hikes took us into the park itself, but it was our most gruelling day.
After North Cascades, we crossed the state (with a stopover in a state park in Port Townsend) to Olympic National Park. We hiked in the rainforest there and saw a surprising number of mammals (including elk and bats) and along the coast and saw an unsurprising number of seagulls.
After another stopover at a state park we dropped off the trailer and truck and spent about a week in Seattle, seeing friends distantly and indulging in good food and drink.
We went on some hikes: