Tweets,

Brien Meilleur and I spent most of the day at Naches Pass exploring Government Meadows and poking about the base of Kelly Butte. Snow is still blocking FSR 7036 just past the Y on 7030 so Windy Gap is not yet accessible by car and Kelly Butte required an extra mile on foot to get to the rope climb.

A beautiful warm day without too much motorized mayhem. Highlights include two adult GOLDEN EAGLES, one circling Government Meadow, the other near Kelly Butte; a single female PINE GROSBEAK at the start of the trail into Government Meadows from the end of FSR 70 and a CHIPPING SPARROW singing nearby, plus a "pure" male RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER exactly where the pair nested last summer, just below the tree painted "15."

No Rock Wrens on Kelly Butte, for some reason. We've come to expect them there. But one female BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD about 1/2 way up the south face of the butte. No three-toed woodpeckers at Government Meadow though there was one tree very heavily and very recently flaked and drilled by one along the trail above the main meadow.

Gene Hunn
18476 47th Pl.NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
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