Over the weekend I was hanging out in the Okanogan with my family. At our place in the Aeneas Valley, my wife found a Chipping Sparrow nest about a foot off the ground in a sage brush. There were four young packed into a nest bowl of grass. She saw the adults take the egg shells away.

West of Hwy 97 up on the bench on Pine Creek Road, a muddy field that has many ducks and teal in June now had shorebirds. Besides the ubiquitous Killdeer, there were 5 Least Sandpipers, a Greater Yellowlegs and many Wilson's Phalarope. There were several juvenile phalarope running around looking comical without tails and flightless as yet.

Ed Swan
Vashon Island
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