Leader Name: Kim Thorburn
Contact Info and best way to contact: email kthorburn@msn.com
Registration date: no later than November 24, 2025
Level of Birder: Everyone is welcome
Length of Trip: We’ll meet for dinner and overnight in a Brewster, WA motel on November 28th. Birding will start the following morning at 7:00 AM at the Brewster pool and we’ll work our way west over the Douglas Plateau until dark, then separate to drive home.
Trip Description: Hard-core, mostly driving.
Meet-up time and location: Arrive at Brewster motel (TBD) by 7:00 PM to have dinner at a local Mexican restaurant.
Limits: Limited to 3 cars.
What to bring: Warm clothes, food for Saturday, water, binoculars, spotting scope if you have one.
Description of Habitat and Target Species: Columbia River, winter shrub-steppe and wheat, coulees. Gyrfalcon, snowy owl, short-eared owl, snow bunting, gyrfalcon, tree sparrow, sharp-tailed grouse.
Above: Short-eared Owl, photographed by Marlene Cashen
Header: Snow Bunting, photographed by Tom Munson