This weekend I spent Friday night camping and birding the Robinson Canyon area near Ellensburg, Saturday morning birding around Vantage and the Old Vantage Highway, and Saturday afternoon / early evening in the Wenas area. After hearing Tom Aversa's message on the WOS hotline last week about a BLACK-THROATED SPARROW near Wanapum State Park, I decided to make this one of my first stops. I stopped in Vantage early Saturday morning and headed south on the Huntzinger Road about 2 1/2 miles to the park. I had one singing bird .8 mile south of the park entrance along Huntzinger Road, and another .9 mile north of the park, also along Huntzinger Road (this is near the site where one was located last year).

My plan was to camp out Saturday evening at Wenas and look for Flammulated Owl, since Bill Shelmerdine had posted sitings at this spot last weekend, but decided to forgo this and headed back to Ballard a day early. Highlights of my trip were:

GOLDEN EAGLE - Robinson Canyon

LEWIS WOODPECKER - Umtanum-Wenas Road near Ellensburg Pass

RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER - Wenas Campground

BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD - Along the Audubon / N Wenas Road

GRAY FLYCATCHER - Wenas Campground

SAGE THRASHER - Old Vantage Highway MP 14.4

TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE - Robinson Canyon

SAGE SPARROW - Old Vantage Highway MP 20

BREWER'S SPARROW - Along Umtanum Road

WHITE-THROATED SWIFT - Ginkgo State Park

CHUCKAR - Old Vantage Highway MP 24

WILSON'S SNIPE - in fields just before entering Robinson Canyon

VEERY - numerous calling at Wenas Campground

LARK SPARROW - Huntzinger Road

CASSIN'S FINCH - Wenas Campground, and along Umtanum Road near Ellensburg Pass

SOOTY? GROUSE - heard calling at Wenas Campground



Cheers and Good Birding;





Michael Fleming

Ballard, WA

michaellf AT myway.com

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