During our final week in Patagonia, AZ, we met a couple who live in Port Angeles, WA which is about 1 hour from Fort Flagler. We had a chance to talk to them and discovered they are really good birders and they invited us over for lunch when we was going to be in the area.
Due to timing on both sides, we was not able to hook up with them until the final days of our stay at Fort Flagler, but when we finally hooked up, it was well worth it.
They are incredible birders as well as wild life photographers who are also very active travelers, which is pretty much everything we like to do ourselves, so this was a fun meeting.
They help out a friend who owns a large, private rare bird/duck breeding facility in the Port Angeles area and they was kind enough to take us over there and show us all kinds of birds we have never seen before. Some from the Arctic, other’s from China and most if not all, were very rare/endangered.
While not “wild” it was still fun to see so many different kinds of ducks and shore birds from around the world.
There was also a Garter Snake, multiple Turtles, 2 dandle lion loving Tortoises, and some huge Goldfish to see!
They of course did tell us what each one was but you know how it is when you are seeing so many different kinds of birds at once, its hard to keep what is what and I thought it would be rude to send them a list of 40 birds asking them to ID them all, so here are some pictures of a bunch of birds.
Special thanks to Mary and Ken!
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