Birding the Olympic Peninsula of Washington
September 2009

Joppa Flats Education Center (Mass Audubon) ran a scouting trip
to the Olympic Peninsula from September 17-24, 2009. We birded around
the Tumwater area for a day, then headed to Westport for coastal and pelagic
birding. Next we then headed north along the Hood Canal and over to Port Angeles.
We birded in the Olympic National Park, along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and then
back to Seattle along Puget Sound. We had a grand trip.

Here are some photos from this trip:

Black-throated Gray Warbler near Tumwater

Mt. Ranier as seen from Tumwater Hill

Wood Ducks in a pond south of Tumwater

That's one dark Song Sparrow!

Sunrise behind us as we head out with Westport Seabirds

Black-footed Albatrosses

Common Murres

Northern Fulmars

Tufted Puffin

Humpback whale sounding

Marbled Godwits at Tokeland

The Banana Slug should be the state invertebrate, at least!

Roosevelt Elk in the early morning

American Dipper

Nothing up here

Look out below!

Have you figured out that I like dippers?

Dipper nest under a bridge

Bald Eagles playing games along the Hood Canal

Gray Jay on Mount Walker

Juvenile Gray Jay

Pine White

Black-tailed (Mule) Deer doe and fawn in Olympic National Park

Common Raven soaring in Olympic National Park

Olympic Mountains

Mount Olympus

Northern Goshawk, probably looking for

Sooty Grouse in Olympic National Park

Common Raven

Red-breasted Sapsucker in Olympic National Park

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Heermann's Gull along the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Looking for seabirds in the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Shovelers and Wigeon in the Strait

Black Turnstones at Port Townsend

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