With improving weather and the birding tour for Migratory Bird Day we saw the following 85 species on the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge this week. Ok the yellowlegs and grebes were technically not on the refuge but you can see Horsethief Lake from here. A few new arrivals are marked with *


Mike Munts
Colville, WA



Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow?s Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Ruffed Grouse
California Quail
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
American Coot
Killdeer
*Greater Yellowlegs
Wilson?s Snipe
Mourning Dove
Calliope Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
*Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-naped Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Hammond?s Flycatcher
Say?s Phoebe
Western Kingbird
*Eastern Kingbird
Cassin?s Vireo
Steller?s Jay
Clark?s Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
House Wren
Pacific Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
*Townsend?s Solitaire
American Robin
European Starling
Nashville Warbler
MacGillivray?s Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend?s Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-Crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco
Western Tanager
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer?s Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Cassin?s Finch
Pine Sisikin
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
Red Crossbill


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