North Cascades National Park

We spent Thursday August 7th in North Cascades National Park. We had spent the night in Mount Vernon and so we were soon on the North Cascades Highway. Our first stop of the day was at a pick-your-own blueberry farm; an organic farm with its own shop featuring homemade ice cream. We stopped off for a treat both ways!

The National Park was beautiful but not very birdy. The bird of the day was a surprising group of 14 California Gulls on lake. But the days' highlight was a 4 mile hike through the forest to an alipine meadow where we sat for a while - plagued by mosquitoes - watching a Hoary Marmot and wtahcing and hearing Pika!  
 

California Gull