It may be impossible to repeat my sighting at that place (open grassy slope with scattered bushes (probably big bush sage brush); since I vaguely remember extensive fires in that area in later years that would've eliminated the sage brush (but maybe I'm wrong and the habitatt is still there?). There was solid forest upslope (at my back).

Phil Hotlen
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From: vogelfreund at comcast.net
> 6/16/08
>
> I don't have my birding records on line, except for an occasional memo, etc. So
> I'd have to dig out my old field notes to give specifics.
>
> But way back in the 1980's I drove over to the Winthrop-Twist area. I drove up
> the dirt track up behind Campbell lake, and stopped for a solo picnic lunch. On
> the map it was SE of Campbell Lake. Anyway, a bird was singing a very enticing
> song atop a distant big bush Sage (at least that's what that bush seemed like).
> But when I got too close, it fled. I finally called it a Lark Sparrow, after
> eliminating all the other possibilities. (I also saw them closer up in Grant
> County).
>
> Phil Hotlen
> Bellingham, WA
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