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Spring Chirp Birding Festival 4/9-13/2025
April 9th-13th, 2025 We have been looking into this festival for a couple years now, not seriously at first. I am not sure we had thought of traveling for birding very seriously up until know. This year it fell on one of my flex Friday’s and we decided to just make it happen. We heard about it initially from our favorite bird nerds, Hannah and Erik, who spoke about it on a couple of their podcasts https://www.gobirdingpodcast.com/. This festival sounded like our speed; it’s described as a “boutique” birding festival because they keep the number of participants small (around 100) in lieu of the 700-800 the Rio Grande Valley Birding…
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5 Loons 24 hours 1/3/2025
1/3-4/2025 There had been an Arctic Loon (ABA code 3) in Port Angeles regularly since the Christmas Bird Count. I decided to get up and take the Coupeville – Port Townsend Ferry at 8:45 AM. Coupeville was nice and rainy and so was the ferry ride, I went up top to go look at some birds during the trip to see if I could get some seabirds. There were White-winged Scoters and Murres and Murrelets, nothing really list worthy. But I did run into my friend I hadn’t seen in a while! She was headed to Port Angeles also took like at a tiny house to potentially move to some…
