12/3/2022, Saturday

Leader: Kim Thorburn kthorburn@msn.com

Registration date: no later than November 30, 2022

Level of Birder: Intermediate

Length of Trip: Overnight in Brewster to get an early start

Trip Description: Large driving distance with many stops. Hardcore. All day, then 60+ miles return to Spokane.

Meet-up time and location: Either for dinner in Brewster/Pateros at 6:30 PM on December 2 or the park northwest of the bridge on Brewster Pool (Lake Pateros) at 6:30 AM on December 3.

Limits: 4 vehicles with a maximum of 12 birders

What to bring: Winter outdoors clothing, binoculars, scopes, and water and food for December 3.

Description of Habitat and Target Species: Columbia River/Brewster Pool for waterfowl and gulls, day-roosting owls. Coulee forest for Steller’s jay, pine grosbeaks. Columbia Plateau shrub-steppe and agricultural lands for winter specialties like snowy owl, gray-crowned rosy-finch, snow bunting, American tree sparrow, and maybe prairie grouse and gyrfalcon.