I landed in Washtucna this morning at about 0800 hrs and the activity was pretty good making it hard to keep track of birds. I did find a Tennessee warbler in the willows at the north end of the pasture. Later I found what I presume to be the same bird at the southend of the park by the houses on the hill.

Also I had a turkey vulture roosting in a tree next to the park. I have seen only one other in the Park on 3 Oct 2005.

numbers included.
12 Townsend solitaires
44 Wilson's warbler
30 yellow-rumped warbler
13 orange-crowned warbler
4 Townsend's warbler
1 yellow warbler
203 ruby-crowned kinglet
10 golden-crowned kinglet

For those of you who bird here often and wondered why no thrushes.

6 hermit thrush
1 Swainson's thrush
2 varied thrush

Flycatchers were light.

1 dusky, 1 least, 1 pacific-sloped and 2 Hammond's.

1 fox sparrow
1 spotted towhee
1 Lincoln's sparrow

1 merlin and atleast one possibly 2 sharp-shinned hawk.

I also birded the town of Kahlotus and it was a bust!

Bird heavy

Bob Flores
Othello, WA