Tweets - yesterday I lead a party of 8 on an extensive trip through Kittitas
County, from Hyak to Vantage and back. The weather was great, the birds
were great, and really the only disappointment was the lack of warblers.

The best highlight was a male, and maybe a glimpse of a female, WILLIAMSON'S
SAPSUCKER at a possible nest hole on Emerick Rd, just opposite a green metal
gate for Hidden Valley something ("Heritage?"). The hole was about 2/3rds
of the way up a fairly slender tree, only a little bit uphill from directly
opposite the gate, easily visible from the road. Emerick Road is the uphill
extention of Hidden Valley Rd., south of SR-970. (Actually, Hidden Valley
Rd. turns 90 degrees to the left, and Emerick continues on straight.) We
also had a HAIRY WOODPECKER just a bit further uphill.

Other Highlights:

Gadwall One at the ponds on Hundley Rd off I-90
at Golf Course Rd
Gray Partridge Two at Swauk Prairie (at the buffalo farm)
Wilson's Snipe Great show at dusk on Smithson Rd.
Caspian Tern Vantage
R.-naped Sapsucker Several sightings including Hundley Rd.,
and SR-10 Teanaway bridge
Rock Wren One just below Wanapum dam on a pile of rocks
Canyon Wren Heard at the usual pullout for GCRF below Wanapum
Loggerhead Shrike MP 17 OVH, and Huntzinger Rd.
Bushtit 970 Lambert Rd
Hermit Thrush South Cle Elum (Charter Rd), and Swauk Cemetery
Sage Thrasher Singing and displaying around MP 17, Vantage Hwy
American Pipit ~50, Hartman Rd (off Swauk Prairie Rd)
Lincoln's Sparrow 2 at SR-10 Teanaway bridge
G.-crowned Sparrow 970 Lambert Rd.
Y-headed Blackbird 2+ males at pond at about 7900 Parke Creek Rd

WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS were ubiquitous to the point of being obnoxious.
They were EVERYWHERE.

Both bluebirds were plentiful from Swauk Prairie east.

For the day, we managed 97 species. It was great.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
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