Birders,

I brought a tour group down to Washington State between May 31 and June 3.
We had a great time, seeing almost of our target species. The missed targets
were White-headed Woodpecker (visited Wenas on June 1 - a hot afternoon)
Acorn Woodpecker, and Tricolored Blackbird. All other birds were very
cooperative.

Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern - 1 at Gloyd-Seaps Wildlife Area near Moses Lk
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 ad. at Audubon-Dodson Rd Trails
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon 1 male on Sidley Lake
Blue-winged Teal
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail 1 male at Wilson Ck
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback 7 on Sidley Lake
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead 1 female on Sidley Lk
Barrow's Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Bald Eagle 2 at nest at Sidley Lk
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
*Ferruginous Hawk 1 dark morph on Hwy 17, near Mold.
Red-tailed Hawk
Golden Eagle 2 ad. near Lyle in Columbia Gorge
American Kestrel
Merlin
Ring-necked Pheasant
Ruffed Grouse
California Quail
Sora
Virginia Rail
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Common Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern 4 along Dodson Road
Black Tern 19 at Sidley Lk
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl 3 on Hwy 17 near Moses Lake - 2 at Frenchman Hills.
Common Nighthawk
Vaux's Swift
White-throated Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Lewis' Woodpecker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 on Nine Mile Ck Rd, E. of Oroville.
Western Wood Pewee
Ash-throated Flycatcher - many in Columbia Gorge around Lyle
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
*Loggerhead Shrike - 2 ad. at nest at Corfu Rd and Lower Crab Ck Rd
Warbling Vireo
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub Jay - many around Lyle
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper - 1 on Hwy 97 in pass N. of Ellensburg.
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Winter Wren
American Dipper 1 at Wenas Campground
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
*Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 at Hardy Canyon
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Sage Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
Nashville Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow - 5 along Molson Chesaw Rd E. of Oroville.
Brewer's Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
*Sage Sparrow 2 along Dodson Road
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
Cassin's Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
*Lesser Goldfinch - 7 around Maryhill inc. a nest at Stonehendge
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow

Total species: approx 150 + 10 more (chat, bobolink, Cooper's Hawk, Common
Loon, in Canada).


Chris Charlesworth
Kelowna, BC, Canada


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