8/5/2017 Arlene’s parents live in Post Falls so it was very convenient to meet up there after my conference and go a birding. On our first adventure we drove around Hayden Lake, Farragut state park, Round Lake, and environs.
Shaded creek
Osprey 
An always cheerful, ready to pose and/or scamper least chipmunk
Interesting restriction 
Another osprey
White tailed deer 
The number of bird species sighted wasn’t nearly as interesting as the birds we actually saw. Tons of osprey, but also the shy brown creeper and elusive hermit thrush.
- Mountain chickadee
- Dark eyed juncos
- Osprey
- Chipping sparrows
- Empidonax flycatchers
- Gray catbird
- Barn swallows
- REd tailed hawks
- Yellow warbler
- Mallards
- Cedar waxwings
- Red breasted merganser
- Wild turkeys
- Turkey vultures
- Red breasted nuthatch (heard)
- California quail
- Brown creeper
- American crows
- Hermit thrush
— Jenny
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