Subject: random notes
Date: Sep 7 23:36:12 1998
From: Eugene Hunn - hunnhome at accessone.com


Gene Hunn, hunnhome at accessone.com

I spent Labor Day weekend camping at Tucquala Lake, 10 miles nw of Salmon La
Sac, up the road from Cle Elum & Roslyn. Beautiful spot. A pure white
plumaged albino Red-tailed Hawk was hanging around the upper end of the lake
up to the Fish Lake Guard Station. Had a yellow bill. Quite striking. Monday
morning I heard a Three-toed Woodpecker drumming behind our camp (toward the
upper end of the lake) and managed to get a good look at him. Heard a second
individual responding from off to the west. A family of Great Horned Owls
kept us up part of the night, calling, screeching (the youngsters begging)
from across the lake toward the outlet. Numbers of Black Swifts (25 or so)
foraged high over the lake Saturday and Sunday; Sunday the were joined by a
half-dozen Common Nighthawks. Also on the lakes thereabouts: what appear to
be locally reared Mallards, Barrow's Goldeneyes, and Common Mergansers and a
PIED-BILLED GREBE (Martin, the lake is at 1020 meters or ~3300 feet).
Several Cooper's, a Sharpie, and a Merlin were noted moving about the area,
and last weekend an immature male Goshawk buzzed us near Tuck Lake nearby.
Still numbers of Lincoln's Sparrows along the lakeshore and one
MacGillivray's Warbler. Two Cascades Frogs at a tarn just below Peggy's Pond.