Monday, March 23, 2009

March 22 2009

Snipe at Birders' Corner

We stopped to look at more birds at Birders' Corner in Grant County on the way home from the Sandhill Crane Festival. This is a Wilson's Snipe camoflaged in the salt grass.

March 21 2009

Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Cranes at the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival

Sunday, March 22, 2009

March 20 2009

Snow Buntings

On the first day of Spring we birded the lower part of Okanogan County, including Cameron Lake Road, and saw many hundreds of Snow Buntings, a winter migrant to northern Washington, also Sandhill Cranes, Rough-legged Hawks and Mountain Bluebirds, a nice mix of winter and spring birds to go with my life bird, a Yellow-billed Loon on the Columbia River in Douglas County, a nice birthday present.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

March 4 2009

Northern Hawk Owl

Northern Hawk Owl observed near Mansfield in Douglas County. My Flickr site has a few more bird photos from yesterday.

Note - according to a post on Tweeters, this bird was discovered as road kill on March 7.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Monday, March 2, 2009

March 1 2009

who walked here?

Ken found these tracks crossing the ski trail near Early Winters. What animal made them?