For Seattle, WA People, Question

[lilminijpc]

Hi All,

I have a question for people who are familiar with the Seattle, WA area. I'll be doing some traveling up there soon and was wondering where there some good places for bird shooting/animals. I got a new telephoto lens and want to test it out.

Thanks! :)

[supercalla]

The University of washington arboretum has some great places to find birds and such. If you can get outside the city the state parks are always a good place to shoot.

[Jimmer411]

Woodland park zoo is nice. Also has a great butterfly exhibit and squirrels that pose long enough for you to get focus before they teleport and pose again (I didnt have a DSLR at the time and had a hell of a time with them!) many many animals there.

Also this is a very good time of the year to head out to northwest trek (graham area, but easy to find) there is a tour by bus that loops around the park where you can see herds of various animals. VERY good place to test your 100-400 :) Not as many animals at NWT, but still a great place to go that has less of a zoo feel to it.

[pixelmama]

The UW Arboretum is a good spot for birds especially the Union Bay natural area.
http://depts.washington.edu/urbhort/

Seattle has a lot of great parks Discovery Park is one of my favorites.
http://www.seattle.gov/parks/Environment/discovparkindex.htm

One of the best places to photograph birds near Seattle is Juanita Bay Park in Kirkland it has boardwalks and platforms for viewing the birds, you will be able to See great variety of birds here.
http://www.ci.kirkland.wa.us/depart/parks/Parks/Juanita_Bay_Park_Tour.htm

South of Seattle is the Nisqually Wildlife refuge a great place to spend a day photographing birds and other wildlife.
http://www.fws.gov/nisqually/default.html

Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma and Northwest Trek in Eatonville are also good places to try out your new lens.
http://www.nwtrek.org/

[draftsrus]

One more suggestions.
http://cougarmountainzoo.org/ :D

[doidinho]

If you are up for a short ferry ride and the Dungeness Spit is probally one of the best places in the area to go.

http://www.dungeness.com/refuge/

[lilminijpc]

thanks for everyone's suggestions!
i'm making note of them as i speak. i hope the weather will be nice when i go. :)

haha... posing animals... i have the worse luck with that! they seem to have this 6th sense to be very obedient the times i Don't have a camera with me... >_<

[Jimmer411]

thanks for everyone's suggestions!
i'm making note of them as i speak. i hope the weather will be nice when i go. :)

haha... posing animals... i have the worse luck with that! they seem to have this 6th sense to be very obedient the times i Don't have a camera with me... >_<


Its been nice and sunny lately :)