Tweeters,

Wilson took me to a really fabulous birding spot: Trout Lake reached by
going into the Elk Meadows R.V. Park (northwest of Trout Lake, WA), going
to the north end of the camping area and heading east along the edge of the
marsh and slough that forms the south end of Trout Lake. A wide trail
follows the edge of this marsh for about a mile, Marsh habitats lie to the
north, but a completely different set of habitats mantles the hillside
south of the trail. There are tall conifers, mixed conifers (including
western larch) and brushy areas.

We finished the hour or so walk here thinking we had seen about 40 species.
The actual tally? 55 species! Interesting were: a juvenile Hooded
Merganser, Band-tailed Pigeon, Red-breasted Sapsucker, recently fledged
family groups of Nashville, Yellow, Audubon's, and Black-throated Gray
Warblers. There is only one other trail of similar length in Washington
where I've experience this diversity of breeding birds - around Big Meadow
Lake in the Colville National Forest.

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> From: Wilson E Cady <gorgebirds at juno.com>
> To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Cc: obol at mail.orst.edu
> Subject: gorgebirds: Klickitat County Birding Trip
> Date: Monday, July 13, 1998 9:56 PM
>
>
> On Sunday, Andy Stepinewski and I birded in western Klickitat
> County with a little spill over into Skamania County along the eastside
> of Indian Heaven. We spent most of our time at Elk Meadows R.V. Park near
> Trout Lake, the Conboy Refuge and at theTidyman Road Ponds at Dallesport.
> we ended up with 104 species for Klickitat County plus another 9 seen in
> Skamania County only.
>
> Pied-billed Grebe
> American Bittern
> Great Blue Heron
> Canada Goose
> Wood Duck
> Green-winged teal
> Mallard
> Blue-winged Teal
> Gadwall
> Barrow's Goldeneye - Skamania
> Common Merganser
> Turkey Vulture
> Osprey
> Northern Harrier
> Red-tailed Hawk
> American Kestrel
> Ring-necked Pheasant
> Virginia Rail
> Sora
> Semi-palmated Plover
> Killdeer
> Greater Yellowlegs
> Lesser Yellowlegs
> Spotted Sandpiper
> Western Sandpiper
> Least Sandpiper
> Long-billed Dowitcher
> Common Snipe
> Ring-billed Gull
> California Gull
> Rock Dove
> Band-tailed Pigeon
> Mourning Dove
> Great Horned Owl
> Common Nighthawk
> Vaux's Swift
> Anna's Hummingbird
> Rufous Hummingbird
> Belted Kingfisher
> Lewis' Woodpecker
> Red-breasted Sapsucker
> Hairy Woodpecker
> Northern Flicker
> Olive-sided Flycatcher
> Western Wood-Pewee
> Willow Flycatcher
> Hammond's Flycatcher
> Pacific-slope Flycatcher
> Say'S Phoebe
> Ash-throated Flycatcher
> Western Kingbird
> Eastern Kingbird
> Tree Swallow
> Violet-green Swallow
> Northern Rough-winged Swallow
> Bank Swallow
> Cliff Swallow
> Barn Swallow
> Gray Jay - Skamania
> Steller's Jay
> Western Scrub Jay
> American Crow
> Common Raven
> Mountain Chickadee
> Chestnut-backed Chickadee
> Red-breasted Nuthatch
> Brown Creeper
> House Wren
> Winter Wren - Skamania
> Marsh Wren
> Western Bluebird
> Swainson's Thrush
> Hermit Thrush
> American Robin
> Varied Thrush - Skamania
> Cedar Waxwing
> European Starling
> Cassin's Vireo
> Warbling Vireo
> Red-eyed Vireo
> Nashville Warbler
> Yellow Warbler
> Yellow-rumped Warbler
> Black-throated Gray Warbler
> Townsend's Warbler - Skamania
> Hermit Warbler - Skamania
> MacGillivray's Warbler
> Common Yellowthroat
> Wilson's Warbler
> Western Tanager
> Black-headed Grosbeak
> Lazuli Bunting
> Spotted Towhee
> Chipping Sparrow
> Fox Sparrow - Skamania
> Lincoln's Sparrow - Skamania
> White-crowned Sparrow
> Dark-eyed Junco
> Red-winged Blackbird
> Western Meadowlark
> Brewer's Blackbird
> Brown-headed Cowbird
> Bullock's Oriole
> Purple Finch
> Cassin's Finch
> House Finch
> Red Crossbill
> Pine Siskin
> American Goldfinch
> Evening Grosbeak
> House Sparrow
>
> Wilson Cady
> Washougal, WA.
> gorgebirds at juno.com
>
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