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Sign Up for a Bird Tour of the Hylebos

When Apr 27, 2009 02:09 PM to
May 03, 2009 12:00 PM
Where Various - Meet at the S. 348th Park and Ride
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Guided tour of the Hylebos Wetlands Park, Spring Valley, Fife Heights, and Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma

Hylebos Creek Explorations - Wetlands to Commencement Bay
 
Date:   Saturday, May 2
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Time:  8:00 AM to Early Afternoon
 
Leader:   Adele Freeland
 
Highlights will be Hylebos Wetlands Park, Spring Valley, Fife Heights, and Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma. This is an excellent time to look for migrants and to listen for bird song. We hope to see songbirds, flycatchers, breeding waterbirds, and birds of the woods. (Right: Red-breasted Sapsucker at Hylebos Creek.)  
 
BRING: Lunch or snacks and drinks. We may walk about two miles. 

MEET: At 8:00 AM at the South Federal Way Park &  Ride. We will be carpooling!

DIRECTIONS: Take I-5 to the exit to Hwy. 18. Turn west. Hwy. 18 becomes So. 348th. The Park & Ride is at 901 So. 348th (three lights west of I-5 on 348th).

Space is limited.  To make reservations contact Adele at  maamfree@comcast.net  or leave a phone message at (253) 874-2874.

 

Photo:  Seth Bynum
 

 
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