Washington State
Pacific Northwest Birding
August 13-22, 2021
Your place on this Venture is reserved when your completed registration form and deposit of $300/person has been received. Deposit may be made via the ‘book now’ button above, or by contacting the Ventures office. We accept credit cards for an additional fee (2.9% for MC, Visa, Discover; 3.9% for AmEx), but you may also pay by bank transfer, cash, check, or money order (payable to ‘VENTURES BIRDING’) sent to PO Box 1095, Skyland, NC 28776. This Venture is limited to 8 participants.
Cost of the Washington Venture $3,495 per person from Seattle, Washington, based on double occupancy ($650 single supplement) Price includes: All transportation in Washington, accommodations, breakfasts, lunches & evening meals, entry fees, taxes, trip information packets, bird list & guide/leader service. Not included: Air fare to Seattle, alcohol, gratuities, laundry and other items of a personal nature.
Visit the spectacular Pacific Northwest in its finest season on this 10-day Venture to the state of Washington. We will visit the Olympic Peninsula, Whidbey Island, Puget Sound, the Cascade Mountains, and the Columbia River Basin, covering a vast variety of habitats both wet and dry, from scenic, rocky cliff coastlines to above the treeline, and from rain forest to high desert. Highlights will include visits to both Olympic and Mt. Rainier National Parks, where we will search the high elevations for such specialties as Gray-crowned Rosy Finch, Canada Jay, Mountain Bluebird and Sooty Grouse, among many others. Participants will also enjoy an all-day pelagic trip exploring the submarine Gray’s Canyon, located on the edge of the Continental Shelf, where we should see an excellent variety of pelagic birds such as Black-footed Albatross, Red Phalarope, South Polar Skua plus several species of shearwaters and storm-petrels, and marine mammals including whales, porpoises, sea lions and seals. Expect to see many new birds on this Venture which should yield a total of over 200 species!
Some of the Birds We Hope to See
Black-footed Albatross, Tufted Puffin, Cassin’s Auklet, Pigeon Guillemot, Black Oystercatcher, Bar-tailed Godwit, Heermann’s Gull, Western Gull, Parasitic Jaeger, Varied Thrush, Townsend’s Warbler, Lewis’ Woodpecker, Williamson’s Sapsucker, Vaux’s Swift, Western Bluebird, Sage Thrasher, Lark Sparrow, Swainson’s Hawk, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Gray-crowned Rosy Finch and many more!
Some of the Mammals We Hope to See
Gray, Orca, Fin, Minke, and Humpback Whales, Pacific White-sided Dolphin, Dall’s Porpoise, Harbor Porpoise, Steller’s Sea Lion, California Sea Lion, Northern Fur Seal, Northern Elephant Seal, and Harbor Seal; Sea Otter, Roosevelt Elk, Olympic and Hoary Marmots, Mountain Goat