After seeing warblers in my yard I bolted to Wanapum Rec. Area and was not disappointed. The best bird, by far, was a female Cape May warbler. The bird is rather drab, mottled streaking from the breast to vent area. Greenish-yellow rump and what really caught my attention, other than the streaking, was greenish-yellow tinge to the primaries. This was easy to see. The bird was found on the south end of the park.

There were lots of birds using the park. The first migrant I saw was a dusky flycatcher. I had another empid that I could not get a ID on. I had a western tanager, 13 orange-crowned and 4 Nashville warblers. 1 warbling vireo.11 ruby-crowned and 6 golden-crowned kinglets, 1 golden-crowned sparrow and 1 red-naped sapsucker. Chukars calling on the hill. The neat thing is my count on yellow-rumped warblers, 379, this is VERY light there was so many y-r warblers that at times I would throw up my binos and have three in my field of view but at different distances. birds were constantly passing me by I would look up at a tree and realize I was looking at 20 or more birds moving at one time. It was overwhelming and a lot of birds simply got by me. For those who have been there before it was a satisfying frustration!

I left at about 2:00pm and headed over to Gingko Interp. Site. I got out of my vehicle to the immediate sound of yellow-rumps calling. I gathered my stuff began at one tree there was about 30 yellow-rumps and I continued on and all of a sudden everything went quite. I looked west and here it came a drenching rain! I got in about three minutes of birding.

Bob Flores
Othello, WA