The Saturday June 16, field trip started at the western end of
Skamania County and worked it's way along Highway 14 to Maryhill State
Park in Klickitat County. We found all of our target species except the
Acorn Woodpecker and picked up a couple of surprises too. Only a gentle
breeze was blowing when we started at Cape Horn under cloudy sky but by
the time we reached Klickitat County it was difficult to hold your
binoculars steady and using a scope meant you had to hold the tripod to
keep it from blowing over.
Once again the following list is from memory and I invite the
participants to correct the list.

Great Blue Heron
Green Heron - Bingen Pond, about the fifth Klickitat County record
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Peregrine Falcon - Beacon Rock State Park
American Coot
Killdeer
Long-billed Curlew
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon
Vaux Swift
Rufous Hummingbird
Lewis's Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Western Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Cassin's Vireo
Hutton's Vireo - in oaks at the Sams-Walker Historical Site at Skamania
Landing
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo - heard only at Cape Horn, Sams-Walker, and Greenleaf
Slough, all in Skamania County
Steller's jay
Western Scrub Jay
Clark's Nutcracker - near the Acorn Woodpecker granary tree along Balch
Rd. in Klickitat County
American Crow
Common Raven
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Canyon Wren - Beacon Rock, first found on March 13, by Andy and Ellen
Stepniewski, 2nd county record
Winter Wren
Western Bluebird
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch - Balch-Lyle Cemetery
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Wilson Cady
gorgebirds at juno.com