At 05:58 PM 5/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I was given the web site and very good directions.
>
Jerry, would you mind giving the URL - either it went to you privately or it
was posted and I missed it.

BTW, Kathy Barker and I went to Wenas last week on a two-day, too short,
birding, botanizing, and "amphibianing" trip to Eastern Washington - spent
about three hours there. It was quiet (but blessedly free of people, too).
Highlights at Wenas were three species of nuthatches and a white-headed
woodpecker. The places in the access road that used to flood have been
filled in with very rough-edged rock, so anyone with bald tires beware and
go slow.

I haven't posted anything about the birds we saw because so many other
Tweeters have been over there recently - the whole road from Ellensburg to
Wenas was great, as was the Dodson Rd/Frenchman Hills area. Biggest
challenge: migrating silent empids. Most frustrating: migrating silent
empids. Best singers: Sage Thrashers and Townsend's Solitaires. Funniest
vocalization: Yellow-headed Blackbirds. Most meaningful vocalization:
foodbegging young screeching from an out of view Prairie Falcon eyrie. Best
wildflowers: Quilomene WRA. Worst roads: Quilomene WRA (thanks to Kathy
for her skill in handling her 4WD pickup). Best food: the Valley Cafe in
Ellensburg (also, check out their latte milk shakes on a hot day).

Have a good one.

Ruth Taylor
rutht at seanet.com
Seattle