TRIP: Lincoln County Shrub-steppe to Coulee Loop

DATE: Saturday, June 10, 2023

LEADER: Kim Thorburn ( kthorburn@msn.com )

REGISTRATION: No later than Friday, June 9

BIRDER LEVEL: Intermediate

LENGTH OF TRIP: All day including drive to and from starting point at Telford rest stop

TRIP DESCRIPTION: Driving with stops and some short walks

MEET-UP TIME & LOCATION: 6:00 AM at Dean’s Drive-in in Reardan

LIMITS: 3 vehicles with a maximum of 12 birders

WHAT TO BRING: Clothes in layers, hats, sturdy shoes, sunscreen, binoculars, scopes (optional), and water and lunch food

HABITAT & TARGET SPECIES: Channeled scabland wildland fire recovering shrub-steppe, potholes, dryland ag fields, dry pine forest, riparian, and basalt walls. Depending on water levels, some breeding waterfowl and shorebirds (black-necked stilt and Wilson’s phalarope). Swainson’s hawk, Lewis’s woodpecker, western and eastern kingbirds, gray flycatchers, willow flycatchers, horned lark, sage thrasher, Brewer’s sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, lark sparrow, western and mountain bluebirds, veery, Cassin’s finch, and many more