Tweets - I birded Asotin, Whitman, and Garfield counties with Matt Bartels,
MaryFrances Mathis, and Tom Mansfield over the last two days. Here are some
highlights:

Yesterday, we stopped at the Clarkston landfill and found one immature
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL and 2 immature GLAUCOUS GULLS.

At the mouth of the Alpowa, just west of Chief Timothy park, we had a
juvenle TRUMPETER SWAN, a whole bunch of REDHEAD, and a MARSH WREN.

Today, we found a lone WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL in Whitman County, just about
a mile uphill from Wawawai Park on Wawawai Grade Rd. It landed in a spruce
on a farm east of the road. We had several TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRES on the
road from Wawawai to Clarkston.

In Garfield County, Kirby-Mayview Rd. was quite birdy. The best highlight
was a single GRAY-CROWNED ROSY-FINCH at a feeder at a house high on the
plateau. Lower down, we had two LONG-EARED OWLS at Rice Bar HMU and a
GADWALL on the Garfield side of Central Ferry.

A bit below Lower Granite Dam, we had a gull that *may have been* a THAYER'S
GULL - field marks that were noted were black wingtips, pink legs, a yellow
bill with a red spot, a dark eye, mantle color darker than nearby Herring
Gulls, and a head shape more rounded than Herring. However, the bird flew
before we could confirm. If it were a Thayer's, I believe it would be a new
Garfield County bird. Maybe someone else can find this bird and snag
themselves a "county first".

We're going to bird Columbia and Garfield counties tomorrow before heading
home.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
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