Leader Name: Kim Thorburn

Contact Info and best way to contact: email kthorburn@msn.com

Registration date: No later than May 28, 2025

Level of Birder: Everyone is welcome

Length of Trip: 1/2 day

Trip Description: Walking on hiking trail with ascents

Meet-up time and location: 6:30 AM at Riverside State Park Carlson trailhead parking lot

Limits: 5 birders + leader

What to bring: Need Discover Pass, sturdy walking shoes, water, binoculars.

Description of Habitat and Target Species: Dry pine forest birding. Townsend’s solitaire; western bluebird; gray and western flycatchers; Nashville, orange-crowned, and yellow-rumped warblers; lazuli bunting; lark sparrow; Cassin’s finch, red crossbill.

Above: Cassin’s Finch, photographed by Patricia Ediger

Header: Western Flycatcher, photographed by Don Driscoll