Subject: [Tweeters] Skamania County Birding
Date: Jul 24 23:41:22 2012
From: Wilson Cady - gorgebirds at juno.com


Today, Les Carlson, Barry Woodruff and I birded in Skamania County for fourteen hours and came up with 87 species. We started at my place on the west end of the county where we tallied about a dozen species including a MOURNING DOVE. At the Schoolhouse Creek wetlands along the Washougal River we found GREEN HERON and OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER among the commoner species. RED CROSSBILLs and PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER were added along Salmon Falls Road where a Black Bear crossed the road while we were standing there. We quickly birded our way to the Klickitat County line and drove north through that county to get to the Skamania County area north of Trout Lake. Here we found HERMIT WARBLER and HERMIT THRUSH at the Big Tree. At two locations on the FR8040 Road before reaching the Wicky Creek Shelter we had male WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKERS. Further north on this road there were MOUNTAIN CHICKADEES near Morrison Creek. On our way back to Trout Lake, Barry spotted a female BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD. From Trout Lake, after scoring huckleberry ice cream cones, we head back into Skamania County on the Carson-Guler Road so we could pick up BARROW'S GOLDENEYE on the lake at South Prairie. From there we headed to Underwood by going through Willard and then back down Highway 14 checking some of the spot we bypassed in the morning. The last birds of interest were six LEAST SANDPIPERS at the mouth of Rock Creek at the fairgrounds in Stevenson. Wilson Cady