Seattle Audubon Society
Field trips aren't just for kids anymore. In an effort to promote bird watching, bird awareness and to, well, just have fun, the Seattle Audubon Society runs field trips as part of its educational classes. Take the Gulls of Washington gull-I.D. class and visit Lake Washington or pick the Owls of Washington course and head to Bainbridge Island to see barred owls and northern saw whet owls.
The society's site contains a plethora of birding information for the Puget Sound area, including nest cams and seasonal facts with instructions on how to feed Anna's hummingbirds (pictured) in winter (for example, string holiday lights around the feeders to keep the sugar-water mixture from freezing).
The society runs a "citizen-science survey" called the Puget Sound Seabird Survey in which volunteer bird watchers count ducks, geese, loons, grebes, cormorants, gulls and alcids. There's also a Neighborhood Bird Project that surveys parks in various Kings County habitats and involves varying levels of bird skills: among the options, beginners can head to Gennesee Park the first Saturday of the month or Golden Gardens the first Sunday of the month. Or, to support the society, pick up birding supplies from the nature shop. The profits, as they say, are for the birds
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