I stepped outside the house to find a forging flock that included a red-naped sapsucker, 3 orange-crowned warblers, 4 ruby-crowned kinglets and a golden-crowned. I then bolted for Basset Park in Washtucna. I was hoping for more I did find 16 orange-crowned, 5 yellow-rumped and one Nashville warblers. There were 6 ruby-crowned kinglets. The rest was normal stuff. I did find in town a Cassin's vireo, 2 yellow-rumped, one orange-crowned warblers and 3 ruby-crowned kinglets. Above the town a golden eagle circled. As I crossed the Franklin/Adams Co. line on Hwy 260 a Ferruginous was floating along. At Palouse Falls I found a Coopers hawk, 1 orange-crowned, 2 yellow-rumped warblers, 2 ruby-crowned kinglets and one gray flycatcher. This the earliest I have found this bird in these parts.

Western kingbirds are now trash birds to be found everywhere.

Bob Flores
Othello,Wa