Saturday May 25, 2002 5am-4pm

The WOS field trip began with Bank Swallows leaving their colony along Hwy
12 and Lewis Peak Rd. at 5am. Participants were Brenda Senturia, Franny
Drobny, Dennis Rockwell, Kraig and Kathy Kemper and myself (Ken Knittle).

Tour route was south fork Coppei Creek, Biscuit Ridge, could not get through
the snow drifts to Blacksnake Ridge, 9-mile Canyon, Dodd-Iowa Beef settling
ponds.

Highlights were at:

Coppei Creek
Copper's Hawk (female)
Ruffed Grouse
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Veery
Gray Catbird
Yellow-breasted Chat
Fox Sparrow

Biscuit Ridge Rd.
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Dipper

Biscuit Ridge
2+ Green-tailed Towhees
pair--Townsend's Solitaire
Vesper Sparrow
Cassin's Finch
Orange-crowned Warbler (gray race)

9-mile Canyon
Rock Wren
Ferruginous Hawk

Dodd Rd.
dark morph Swainson's Hawk

Dodd-Iowa Beef ponds
***Snowy Plover--very rare in eastern Washington
Black-necked Stilts
American Avocets
Spotted Sandpipier
Wilson's Phalarope

Total species 100

Ken Knittle, Vancouver, WA
washingtonbirder at hotmail.com





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