Hey Tweets,

Last segment here! On Saturday, I woke up on Steptoe Butte at 4:30 as vans full of photographers came out for sunrise. Stuck around to take pics too, and got my lifer Rock Wren as I did. On the way down the hill later, I got my second lifer before 6 AM - a Gray Catbird! Steptoe Butte itself was productive enough, and I also found good passerines in Colfax, and on the highway from Steptoe to Sprague. Ended the morning with 50+ species in Whitman after stops at Crooked Knee and Sheep Lakes, including Bank Swallows near St. John, Northern Harrier, Swainson's Hawk, Yellow and Townsend's Warblers, Common Yellowthroat, Virginia Rail, Chipping, Grasshopper, and Savannah Sparrows, Lazuli Bunting, Western Tanager, and looootttts of Icterids (Meadowlark, Brewer's, Red-winged, and Yellow-headed Blackbirds).

Adams county was not as productive - missed nearly all of the rarities out there, although I did pick up my only American Avocet of the trip - near Ritzville on I-90 in a little pond as I drove past at 70!

Last blog post is up - whew.

-Tim Brennan
www.39counties.blogspot.com