We called it the "Grand Adventure Weekend." The second to the last weekend before we sent our son back to school, my wife and I packed the car and the kids and set off on a new and somewhat ...

Habitat: 4,000-acre river delta with forest, salt and freshwater wetlands, meadows, deciduous riparian woodlands, salt marsh, and Puget Sound mudflats. Best season for birding: Good year-round.

Two barn owls were found dead in one of the Twin Barns in the Billy Frank Jr. National Wildlife Refuge in Thurston County. The two owls died of avian influenza, or bird flu, according to a social ...