Hello tweets,

Netta Smith and I saw a Band-tailed Pigeon at close range at the junction of Ruby Two Moons Road with the Aeneas Valley Road, east of Tonasket. It's a private lane and doesn't show up on any maps, so I can't enter it in eBird. Thus this is my only way of sharing this observation of what must be a very rare bird in Okanogan County. Certainly I have never seen one there. It was very close, landed briefly in front of us, and then took off into the forest before I could get a camera on it.

Dennis Paulson
Seattle