The important menu at McMenamin's. I enjoyed the IPA.
Ladies at McMenamin's in Wilsonville!
Provisions for a birding trip.
Ponderosa pine bark. Can you smell the vanillla?
Fort Rock
Christmas Valley
More Fort Rock
Three spotting scopes.
Death Camas
Daughter-and-mother-asana. No yoga pose shots on this trip!
If we can't have the cabin, we'll at least fill the cooler with wine.
A goodly amount of NW cheese.
Bitterroot
What the photo blind looked like on the outside. Thankfully, it was cool in- and outside.
Betty, silent in the photo blind, watching crossbills, the nutcracker and more.
Dowitchers
summer lake
Summer Lake
Yellow-headed blackbird
Black-crowned night heron
Ash-throated flycatcher
It grows in gravel.
Sagebrush Sparrow
Red Crossbill (female and/or immature)
I love it when they look every bit the dinosaurs that they are.
Clark's Nutcracker
He knows we are in there but appears to be ok with it.
Red Crossbills
Sally, Betty, help me out here. What is this bird? Yellow-rumped Warbler?
I didn't get all of him/her, but s/he's cute.
Petroglyphs
In case I forget this was a road trip.