In response to Ed Rybak's query, eastern WA is the place for sparrows. For
the closest access, I would try neighboring Kittitas County. On a transect
parallelling I-90 from Snoqualmie Pass to Vantage, one should be able to
find Lincoln's (wet boggy areas), Song (shrubby areas) and White-crowned
(shrubby areas) at the pass; Fox in scrubby second-growth on the roads
going up higher from I-90, e.g., at Stampede Pass or above Lake Kachess;
Chipping (and Dark-eyed Junco, a sparrow) in the wet to dry conifer forests
farther east; Vesper and Brewer's in native grasslands east of Cle Elum, as
at the Elk Heights exit (also Chipping there, in the ponderosa pines);
Savannah in grassy pastureland, as at the Thorp exit; Grasshopper
(uncommon) and Vesper in open grasslands south and east of Thorp, e.g. on
the lower part of Robinson Canyon Road; and Sage, Brewer's and perhaps Lark
(more common out in Grant Co.) in the Quilomene WRA on the old road east of
Vantage. How's that?

Dennis Paulson
dpaulson at ups.edu