Pacific Northwest Trip ~ January 12, 2013

After the short early morning drive to the airport, we dropped off the rental car with 2,013 more miles on it. After takeoff, I managed to get a couple photos of Mount St. Helens.

Mount St. Helens, Washington from the plane with Mount Hood, Oregon just to the left in the background.

Mount St. Helens, Washington from the plane.

Although we missed the Citrine Wagtail, I did manage to get one 'lifer' among the 83 species for the trip. The real upsetting thing was finding out that a Red-flanked Bluetail had been discovered only two days later about four miles off a highway exit that we had passed on the way back to Seattle. Ugghhh! Sometimes the birding 'gods' aren't with you.

More photos can be found in my California Photo Album, my Oregon Photo Album, and my British Columbia Photo Album.

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Pacific Northwest Trip - January 7-12, 2013

1) Greater White-fronted Goose
2) Snow Goose
3) Canada Goose
4) Trumpeter Swan
5) Mallard
6) Gadwall
7) Green-winged Teal
8) American Wigeon
9) Eurasian Wigeon
10) Northern Pintail
11) Northern Shoveler
12) Cinnamon Teal
13) Canvasback
14) Redhead
15) Ring-necked Duck
16) Common Goldeneye
17) Bufflehead
18) Common Merganser
19) Ruddy Duck
20) Common Loon
21) Pied-billed Grebe
22) Double-crested Cormorant
23) Great Egret
24) Great Blue Heron
25) White-faced Ibis
26) Turkey Vulture
27) Northern Harrier
28) Bald Eagle
29) Red-shouldered Hawk
30) Red-tailed Hawk
31) American Kestrel
32) Peregrine Falcon
33) Gyrfalcon
34) Virginia Rail
35) American Coot
36) Black-bellied Plover
37) Killdeer
38) Black-necked Stilt
39) Dunlin
40) Ring-billed Gull
41) Mew Gull
42) Western Gull
43) Glaucous-winged Gull
44) Rock Pigeon
45) Anna's Hummingbird
46) Belted Kingfisher
47) Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker
48) Downy Woodpecker
49) Black Phoebe
50) Northern Shrike
51) Black-billed Magpie
52) American Crow
53) Northwestern Crow
54) Common Raven
55) Black-capped Chickadee
56) Bushtit
57) Brown Creeper
58) White-breasted Nuthatch
59) Bewick's Wren
60) Marsh Wren
61) Golden-crowned Kinglet
62) Ruby-crowned Kinglet
63) Varied Thrush
64) American Robin
65) European Starling
66) American Pipit
67) Townsend's Warbler
68) California Towhee
69) Spotted Towhee
70) 'Sooty' Fox Sparrow
71) Savannah Sparrow
72) Lincoln's Sparrow
73) Song Sparrow
74) White-crowned Sparrow
75) Golden-crowned Sparrow
76) Dark-eyed 'Oregon' Junco
77) Snow Bunting
78) Western Meadowlark
79) Red-winged Blackbird
80) Brewer's Blackbird
81) Brambling*
82) House Finch
83) House Sparrow

(*) denotes 'life' bird.

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