Lazuli Bunting – W.L. Finley Refuge
Once a year I take my 86 Alfa Romeo on a birding trip, usually to Oregon. My route this year, down I-5, though the Willamette Valley, up the Oregon coast and then looping back to BC, takes me past some of the best birding spots in the northwest – Nisqually, Baskett Slough, W.L. Finley, Fern Ridge, George Reifel. The car is sparkling and bright at the start, dust covered and bug plastered when I ease her into the her parking bay at home. What lingers is the remembrance of the joy of motoring through incredibly beautiful countryside, top down, listening to snatches of bird song, alive to the smell of blossoms, new hay, and the medicinal aromas of conifers — and of the wonderful birds I saw and heard along the way.
Bittern – Fern Ridge Refuge
Sandhill Crane – George Reifel Refuge
Black-headed Grosbeak – W.L.Finley Refuge
Spotted Towhee with Caterpillars
Red-Breasted Sapsucker – W.L. Finley
Live Moss – Fern Ridge
Marsh Wren – Nisqually
Alfa Bird – Oregon
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