(And remember, you can watch a high-resolution slideshow by clicking on any photo.)
Washington
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| A great horned owl watches us at Bennington Lake. |
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| Two frogs were left high-and-dry at the edge of the low lake. |
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| This noisy northern flicker lives in the tree outside my bedroom window! |
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| A northern flicker was also our Outdoor Program trip's first sighting at McNary National Wildlife Refuge. |
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| A white-crowned and a golden-crowned sparrow show off their different head wear. |
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| A western grebe repels water like Gortex. |
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| She caught a fish! |
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| A murder of crows heads... somewhere. |
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| Amanda and Mom look out over the Snake River from Chief Timothy State Park. Could the lighting be any more perfect? |
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| Every clump of brown grass was crowned with a voluptuous black lady in her web. |
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| This spider had a minuscule suitor on her blade of grass! |
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| Take a moment to admire those pin-striped eyeballs... |
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| Wait a minute... these aren't birds anymore! I digress. |
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| A yellow-rumped warbler shows off what its mama gave it. |
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| A prairie falcon or a male merlin?! The topic of hot debate! Update: thanks to iNaturalist we have confirmation that this is a merlin! |
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| Can you pick out one of these things that doesn't belong? |
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| A snow goose among the Canada geese! |
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| An old steamboat passes by a grain elevator. |
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| Amanda and I overlook the Snake River. |
Oregon
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| A red-breasted nuthatch picks at bark in the Blue Mountains. |
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| A mystery bird! A off-color American robin? A Townsend's solitaire? Update: this has been identified as a female western bluebird! |
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| A varied thrush peeks out from the boughs of a Douglas fir. |
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| Mother and fawn white-tailed deer. |
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| I had to balance my camera on a signpost and set a timer... I was terrified the wind would knock it off! |
Idaho
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| A red-tailed hawk displays that red tail as it soars over Mann Lake. |
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| They have beautiful wings, too! |
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| One killdeer and two pectoral sandpipers. |
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| Canada geese take flight. |
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| A woolly bear on the muddy bank of Mann Lake. |
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| A Bonaparte's gull herds his sheep... I mean his long-billed dowitchers. |
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| A flock of female common mergansers. |
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| We took a tumble in the mud! Like mother like daughter. |
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| Amanda to the rescue! Just like that time she pulled me out of the salt-lick mud in the Amazon. <3 |
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| Dozens of large freshwater snails were burrowed in the exposed mud banks. |
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| A small flock of American pipits flitted along the railroad berm. |
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| Tri-State Birders conquer Mann Lake! |
Thanks to all the birds and birders, and the occasional bug, too. It wouldn't have been any fun at all without you!
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