8/6/2017 Arlene knew of a wildlife refuge nearby. In my search for places to bird I hadn’t even thought about crossing the border into Washington. I’m really glad she knew of the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, because it was AMAZING.
As we approached the refuge we drove over this bridge with ponds on both sides. Realizing that there were many birds we backed up (okay, really I just turned the car around and drove back) and parked so we could get out and really look.
One of the oh so many Eastern kingbirds. He’s perched on the smaller rock 
Most of the birds were of the flitty kind. You know, the ones who hide in trees and move too fast to even see with binoculars. Others were far away or on the other side of the car, so I wasn’t able to photograph as many as I would like.
We went through the refuge twice, each time it took about three hours. We saw different species each time, though the Eastern kingbirds were omnipresent.
Birds of the Day:
- Mourning doves
- EC doves
- Rock doves
- Osprey
- Cinnamon teals
- Green winged teal
- Mallards
- American coots
- Brown headed cowbirds
- Brewer’s blackbirds
- Rufous hummingbird
- Eastern kingbirds
- Killdeer
- Cliff swallows
- California quails
- Northern flicker (red shafted)
- Blue winged teal
- House wrens
- American crows
- Willow flycatchers
- White crowned sparrows
- Black billed magpies
- Black capped chickadee
- Red naped sapsucker
- Downey woodpecker
- Wilson’s phalarope
- Pied billed grebes
- Western bluebirds
- Chipping sparrows
- Cedar waxwings
- American robins
- Red tailed hawk
- Western wood peewee
- Red winged blackbird
- Trumpeter swans
- White breasted nuthatch
- Wild turkey
- Vesper sparrows
- Western tanagers
- Grasshopper sparrows
- Gadwalls
- Common ravens
- Gray catbird
- Canada geese
- Mountain bluebird
- Northern pintail
- Starlings
— Jenny
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