Yesterday's ELWAS birding-class trip to eastern Washington netted 79 species
from the timeworn beginner's loop: E'burg/Old Vantage Hwy; I-90 to Dodson
Road; Frenchman's Hills and "The Blue Grouse;" back in Ellensburg. Afternoon
temp. 67F.
No major ID conflicts - while loosing a small raft of new birders among us.

Notables:

In the pass: a gorgeous NORTHERN GOSHAWK facing the rising sun.

A bouncing, baby DIPPER on a streamside boulder east of CleElum.

A GREAT-HORNED OWL family of four, (two fuzzy white ones) - Ellensburg
outskirts.

HORNED LARKS (2) tiptoeing along the tops of newly sculptured furrows in LONG-
BILLED CURLEW country off Dodson Road.


One (1) AVOCET where we once saw 8, or l8, on a pothole beach.

Ticketed some TURKEY VULTURES, too. Sans carrions.

GOSH, Dennis!

Amy Mc
Mercer Island