After 10 years of annual August trips to Mt Rainier I finally saw a
White-tailed Ptarmigan. There was an adult and a chick just downslope
from the Mt Fremont Lookout near Sunrise today around 1:30 this
afternoon. A flock of ~8 Gray-Crowned Rosy Finches flew in for a brief
period also, another bird I've been looking for for quite awhile too. A
pika grazing nearby was also fun to see. The only other birds seen was
1 Clark's Nutcracker and a very brief view of an Accipiter sp.
Mike Blue
miblu at uw.edu
Renton,Wa