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From: "Gene Revelas" <grevelas at striplin.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:15:17 -0700

Hi Tweets,

To add to the recent Okanogan County reports, Martha Taylor and I led a two
day Seattle Audubon Society field trip to Okanogan County this past weekend
(6/27-28). With ten very enthusiastic birders carpooling in three cars, we
started in Omak each day - working the eastern Okanogan highlands on
Saturday and the Conconully Lake and Roger Lake/Tiffany Springs areas on
Sunday. Thanks to everyone who came along (with special thanks to Dave
Swayne for his birding expertise and Pygmy Owl tooting skill). As a group,
we tallied the 124 species listed below. An asterisk indicates evidence of
breeding (nest and/or young) and trip highlights, from my perspective, are
noted in ( ).

For notable misses, we could not locate White-headed Woodpeckers along
Lyman Lake-Moses Meadow Rd in areas that I'd noted multiple nesting pairs
in both 1996 and 1997. Are they absent this year or have the young fledged
earlier and the families moved on ? Also, we did not see or hear a Dusky
Flycatcher (I noticed Ruth and Patrick Sullivan didn't report one either
?), although Hammond's were still vocal in several locations. Finally,
three carloads of birders spent two days driving around the Okanogan Valley
and we didn't record a Black-billed Magpie !

Species seen on SAS Okanogan field trip - 6/27 and 6/28:

LOONS and GREBES
Red-necked Grebe* (adult with juvenile on it's back being fed by the other
parent - Little Beaver Lake)
Pied-billed Grebe*

HERONS
Great Blue Heron

WATERFOWL
Canada Goose*
Green-winged Teal*
Mallard*
Blue-winged Teal*
Cinammon Teal*
American Wigeon*
Ring-necked Duck*
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye* (single females with broods on both Little Beaver Lake
and Crawfish Lake)
Barow's Goldeneye*
Hooded Merganser*
Ruddy Duck*

FALCONS and HAWKS
Osprey*
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk*
American Kestrel*

GALLINACEOUS BIRDS
Chukar (sitting on top of a Hay Barn on Conconully Lake Rd, a domestic
Chukar ?)
California Quail

RAILS
Sora (foraging and flying in the open on a small pond near Lyman Lake)
American Coot*

SHOREBIRDS
Killdeer*
Spotted.Sandpiper*
Common Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope

GULLS and TERNS
Ring-billed Gull
Black Tern* (adults feeding juveniles perched on fence posts in the upper
Aenaes Valley)

PIGEONS and DOVES
Mourning Dove
Rock Dove

OWLS - no night birding
Great Horned Owl
Northern Pygmy-Owls (2 - heard on both days - at Little Beaver Lake and on
road to Baldy Pass, responded to Dave Swayne's tooting)

NIGHTJARS
Common Nighthawk

SWIFTS
White-throated (around cliffs at the Riverside end of Tunk Creek Rd)

HUMMINGBIRDS
Black-chinned*? (on territory ? in riparian strip near Okanogan/Ferry Cty
line - Toroda Creek Rd).
Rufous
Calliope

KINGFISHERS
Belted

WOODPECKERS
Lewis'*
Red-naped Sapsucker*
Williamson's Sapsucker (along Lyman Lake-Moses Meadow Rd)
Downy
Hairy*
Northern Three-toed (along trail to Tiffany Lake from Tiffany Springs
Campground)
Northern Flicker*

FLYCATCHERS
Olive-sided
Western Wood Pewee
Willow*
Hammond's
Pacific-slope
Say's Phoebe (seemed out of place in a high (4000') meadow/clear cut on
FR100 east of Crawfish Lake)
Western Kingbird*
Eastern Kingbird*

LARKS
Horned

SWALLOWS
Tree*
Violet-green*
Barn*
Cliff*
N.Rough-winged
Bank*

CORVIDS
Gray Jay
Steller's Jay
Clark's Nutcracker
American Crow
Common Raven

CHICKADEES
Black-capped
Mountain
Boreal (5 along trail to Tiffany Lake from Tiffany Springs Campground)

NUTHATCHES
White-breasted
Red-breasted
Pygmy (large flock, 20+, in P. Pines along Lyman Lake - Moses Meadow Rd)

CREEPERS
Brown

WRENS
House
Winter

THRUSHES
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird*
Mountain Bluebird*
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery (sitting in the open mid-afternoon in riparian area near
Okanogan/Ferry Cty line (Toroda Creek Rd).
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush (many seen and heard at Baldy Pass and above)
American Robin*
Varied Thrush

MIMIC THRUSHES
Gray Catbird (singing from exposed perches in the riparian area near
Okanogan/Ferry Cty line - Toroda Creek Rd).

WAXWINGS
Cedar

STARLINGS
European

VIREOS
Cassin's
Warbling

WARBLERS
Orange-crowned
Nashville
Yellow*
Yellow-rumped
Townsend's
MacGillivray's
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's (singing in moist forested area along FR 100 east of Crawfish
Lake)

TANAGERS
Western

SPARROWS, FINCHES, and BLACKBIRDS
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow (2 in grasslands just northwest of Omak along
Conconully Lake Rd)
Fox Sparrow (1 - slate-colored form - singing in the meadow just south of
Tiffany Springs CG along FR 39)
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrows (several - singing in wet meadows east of Crawfish
Lake, FR 100, and in the meadow just south of Tiffany Springs CG along FR
39)
Dark-eyed Junco
Bobolink (5+ in meadow where Aenaes Valley Rd joins Rt. 20)
Red-winged Blackbird*
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Western Meadowlark
Bullock's Oriole*
Cassin's Finch
House Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Gene Revelas
grevelas at striplin.com