Hi Tweets,
I mentioned earlier that i was going on a trip to spokane area,
but I have just now returned from a trip planned weeks ago. Most of my
target birds were missed because of my parents not wanting to spend a great
time birding. These target birds were, AMERICAN REDSTART, RED-EYED VERIO,
and, BLACK TERN. We did not get the redstart or the verio, much to my
dismay, but i will see them some where else.

We started our Birding part of the trip in an unexspected way, in a back
road near spokane that we accidentaly turned onto, there we saw GREATER
YELLOWEGS, a very unexspected SOLITARY SANDPIPER ( amazingly enough we saw
2), EASTERN KINGBIRD, KILLDEER, male RUDDY DUCKS, AMERICAN GOLDFINCH,
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS, immature SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, and a female MALLARD
who had line of chicks behind her.

The next morning at Turnbull NWR, We saw lots of BLACK TERNS, amoung
singing MARSH WRENS. We went on a tour loup seing the main assortment of
Ponderosa Pine birds amoung, GBHS, and COOTS. We then went back to a
riparian area looking for redstarts, but instead found two immature GREAT
HORNED OWLS, who were attacked by a Peewe who landeed on their backs much to
their shigrin. We also starte\led an immmature Red-tail, who was feating on
some unlucky rodent.

From then on the birding wasn't very notable, but at the end of the trip,
mainly birding one day, and being on the road quite a lot then too, we
ended up with 85 species, ok, but not as much as i had hoped for. I should
have sent this out earlier but i was too lazy cause i got back last friday.

Good birding,
-Brendan



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