Birders' Top Spots
Location: Town of Chelan, Chelan County.
Habitat: Family-friendly municipal park where the Chelan River flows out of Lake Chelan.
Best seasons for birding: Good year-round.
Birds commonly seen: In fall and winter, look for common loons, belted kingfishers and pied-billed, horned and western grebes.
Spring and summer bring American goldfinches, yellow-rumped warblers and cliff, barn, tree, and violet-green swallows. Townsend's solitaires migrate through in spring and fall.
December 2, 2004
Birders' Top Spots
Location: Anacortes.
Habitat: A 200-acre, family-friendly municipal park with cedar, fir and madrona forest, grassy bluffs and boulder-strewn coastline.
Best seasons for birding: Good birding year-round.
November 6, 2003
