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Robinson and Ainsley Canyons, LT Murray Wildlife Area, WA
June 2022
Synopsis
In desperate need of vitamin D during a prolonged wet and cold PNW spring, we headed over the mountains to one of our favorite spots - Robinson Canyon. The cold and wet affected Eastern Washington as well. Blooming wildflowers were pushed back and condensed into a wonderful blanket of color everywhere. The butterflies during this trip were also outstanding, with the wildflower meadows a flutter in the colors of fritillaries, swallowtails, blues, and even a monarch.
The Warbling and Cassin's Vireo, Yellow-breasted Chat, and Veery were still singing from the ponderosa and thick riparian. Western Wood-Pewees nested at the ends of bare branches over the creek. In the evening, the Common Nighthawks entertained us with their areal acrobatics and the Sooty Grouse could be heard displaying from the treetops. Young mule deer stuck close to their mom, and a trio of California ground squirrels were perhaps too venturous by the roadside.
Robinson Canyon was just what we needed this long spring/winter to recharge and reconnect.
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Pictures (click on thumbnails to enlarge)
Bird List
| California Quail |
| Sooty Grouse |
| Mourning Dove |
| Common Nighthawk |
| Common Poorwill |
| Anna's Hummingbird |
| Calliope Hummingbird |
| Rufous Hummingbird |
| Turkey Vulture |
| Red-naped Sapsucker |
| Lewis's Woodpecker |
| Hairy Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Western Wood-Pewee |
| Pacific-slope Flycatcher |
| Cassin's Vireo |
| Warbling Vireo |
| Steller's Jay |
| Black-billed Magpie |
| American Crow |
| Common Raven |
| Black-capped Chickadee |
| Mountain Chickadee |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
| House Wren |
| Western Bluebird |
| Mountain Bluebird |
| Townsend's Solitaire |
| Veery |
| Hermit Thrush |
| American Robin |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| House Finch |
| Purple Finch |
| Cassin's Finch |
| Red Crossbill |
| Pine Siskin |
| American Goldfinch |
| Chipping Sparrow |
| Dark-eyed Junco |
| Vesper Sparrow |
| Song Sparrow |
| Spotted Towhee |
| Yellow-breasted Chat |
| Western Meadowlark |
| Bullock's Oriole |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Nashville Warbler |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Western Tanager |
| Black-headed Grosbeak |
| Lazuli Bunting |
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| Critters |
| Mule deer |
| California ground squirrel |
| Chipmunk |
| Northern Pacific Rattlesnake |
| Gopher snake |
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| Flowers in bloom |
| American speedwell |
| American vetch |
| Antelopebrush |
| Arrowleaf balsamroot |
| Chelan penstemon |
| Common monkey-flower |
| Cow parsnip |
| Desert yellow fleabane |
| Douglas Brodiaea |
| Grand collomia |
| Harsh paintbrush |
| Heartleaf arnica |
| Lacy phacelia |
| Large-flower triteleia |
| Lemon tarweed |
| Lupine sp. |
| Northern mule-ears |
| Oregon sunshine |
| Praire smoke |
| Rocky Mountain iris |
| Roundleaf alumroot |
| Shaggy fleabane |
| Silverleaf phacelia |
| Sticky cinquefoil |
| Sticky purple geranium |
| Tall bluebells |
| Upland larkspur |
| Velvet lupine |
| Western blue flax |
| Western hawksbeard |
| Yarrow |
| Yellow desert fleabane |
| Yellow salsify |
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| Butterflies |
| Anise swallowtail |
| fritillary sp. |
| Great arctic |
| Monarch |
| Mourning cloak |
| Ochre ringlet |
| Pacific dotted blue |
| Pale tiger swallowtail |
| Sara's orangetip |
| Satyr anglewing |
| Square-spotted blue |
| Thicket hairstreak |
| Western sulfur |
| Western tailed blue |
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