Our final trip was on Sunday June 17 and went to the Elk Meadows
R.V. Park at Trout Lake then to the Conboy Refuge and back down the
Klickitat River to Highway 14. It was tough to pull ourselves away from
Elk Meadows where we kept finding birds and had great conditions. If I
missed any species on the list please feel free to correct this report. I
throughly enjoyed all of the groups that I birded with and think that the
use of FRS radios to keep in touch between the vehicles was a great
asset.
Our most exciting sighting was when a small dog running loose at
the Conboy Refuge flushed a family of Wild Turkeys. Several of the young
poults were perching in scope view in a pine tree when a female Cooper's
Hawk made an attempt at one. She missed and was sitting in a nearby tree
until one of the young turkeys made a mistake and jumped to the ground
where it was quickly snatched up by the hawk.

Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Hooded Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Wild Turkey
Virginia Rail - responded to my imitation and jumped into the air and
then came running towards the group
Sora
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Common Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Ring-billed Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Common Nighthawk
Vaux's Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Lewis's Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Hammond's Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Cassin's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
American Dipper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Townsend's Solitaire
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird - a pair along the Nature Trail at Elk Meadows
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Northern Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
Red Crossbill
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow


Wilson Cady
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