Additional options For Kittitas (one of my favorite counties):
a Spotted owl at the top;
Flammulated owl and C Nighthawk (option #4: C Poorwill )
Dan Reiff, PhD
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On Nov 26, 2025, at 10:52 AM, Steve Loitz via Tweeters wrote:
For Kittitas County, maybe Sage Thrasher, Prairie Falcon and Williamson's Sapsucker (or White-headed Woodpecker), although I would expect pushback from Yakima County and Chelan County.
Steve Loitz
Ellensburg
Howdy!
A good birding friend and I have talked about this 117-questions-in-one question: If each county in our state had a totem pole with three birds on it... what would those birds be? An extra constraint we added - no birds can be on more than one totem! It seems
like it would call for at least one specialty bird (if you want to see a __________, you really want to go to __________ county), and some combination of other birds that paint a good picture of the county.
Even without the no-shared-birds constraint, it would be interesting to hear what birds come to mind for different counties!
But ultimately, we may need to set up a mock draft for this...
Cheers!
Tim Brennan
Renton
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