The Crescent Lake Unit is a diverse place both in habitats and the variety of users it attracts. It is located three miles south of Monroe at the confluence of the Skykomish and Snoqualmie rivers. It contains 359 acres of…

Likely you have driven by the Cherry Valley Unit wildlife area on your way to and from destinations north and south of Duvall along State Highway 203. If you have not yet stopped by to take a look…

I had seen posts on various sites about Barred Owls catching and eating crayfish but I had never witnessed it myself. So when a birding friend called…

If you have not yet visited this diverse habitat area, now is a good time to go. This 456-acre unit is three miles north of the town of Carnation, is the largest unit within the Snoqualmie Wildlife Area and hosts the greatest diversity of habitats. There are…

Photographers from across the state submitted their best bird photos from this past year, and the results were breathtaking! With record participation this year, the judges had an incredibly difficult task on their hands…

John Muir once wrote “Keep close to Nature’s heart….Wash your spirit clean”. There is little doubt that being out and enjoying nature is a soul cleanse for many people. We have different ways of enjoying what nature offers us…

Bird banding is the practice of safely applying a band or tag to part of the bird, usually the leg, for data collection and individual identification. Banding birds allows researchers to learn the migration patterns, life span, breeding territory, and…

Sometimes birding is the only thing that makes me feel better.

When I’m out walking through the woods, scanning a pond, or scoping out a wetland; when I hear the call of a Barred Owl or focus my binoculars on a Green Heron—the troubles and controversies of the political scene fade away…

March 24, 2020

For the health of our communities and ourselves, we should all heed the shelter-in-place orders as much as we possibly can. But that doesn’t mean we have to rid ourselves of birding completely!

For a novice birder or even a well-traveled, experienced birder, everyone at some point has faced the disheartening ritual of writing these dreaded words on their checklist…