Folks, We went to the John Scharff Festival in Burns this past weekend. We did the Woodpecker Tour with Don Sutherland and enjoyed the presentation of Noah Strycker at the banquet. Thanks to all the fine folks who make this annual festival a fun event and a success. We also drove the north half of the Central Patrol Rd and made two trips to Les Schwab with two flat tires. We tallied 110 species. We found the ones marked MNWR on the refuge. Pied-billed Grebe MNWR Horned Grebe (1 a mi N of Wright's Point on the W side of Hwy 205) Eared Grebe Clark's Grebe MNWR American White Pelican MNWR Double-crested Cormorant MNWR American Bittern MNWR (marsh N of Benson pond) Great Blue Heron MNWR White-faced Ibis Turkey Vulture MNWR Greater White-fronted Goose MNWR Snow Goose MNWR Ross's Goose MNWR Canada Goose MNWR Trumpeter Swan MNWR Gadwall MNWR Eurasian Wigeon (1 a mi N of Wright's Point on the W side of Hwy 205) American Wigeon MNWR Mallard MNWR Cinnamon Teal MNWR Northern Shoveler MNWR Northern Pintail MNWR Green-winged Teal MNWR Canvasback MNWR Redhead MNWR Ring-necked Duck MNWR Lesser Scaup MNWR Bufflehead MNWR Common Goldeneye MNWR Barrow's Goldeneye MNWR Common Merganser MNWR Ruddy Duck MNWR Northern Harrier MNWR Cooper's Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk MNWR Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel MNWR Prairie Falcon MNWR Ring-necked Pheasant MNWR California Quail MNWR Virginia Rail MNWR American Coot MNWR Sandhill Crane MNWR Killdeer MNWR Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Willet MNWR Long-billed Curlew MNWR Marbled Godwit (2, N side of Hotchkiss Rd) Least Sandpiper MNWR (1 at Narrows) Long-billed Dowitcher MNWR Wilson's Snipe MNWR Franklin's Gull MNWR Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull MNWR California Gull MNWR Herring Gull MNWR (1 immature at Narrows) Caspian Tern MNWR Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Eurasian Collared Dove MNWR Great Horned Owl MNWR Burrowing Owl MNWR (Ruh-Red Rd) Williamson's Sapsucker Red-naped Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker White-headed Woodpecker Northern Flicker MNWR Say's Phoebe MNWR Loggerhead Shrike MNWR Steller's Jay Black-billed Magpie MNWR American Crow MNWR Common Raven MNWR Tree Swallow MNWR Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow MNWR Barn Swallow MNWR Mountain Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Pygmy Nuthatch Rock Wren Marsh Wren MNWR Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet MNWR Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire American Robin MNWR Sage Thrasher MNWR European Starling MNWR Orange-crowned Warbler MNWR (Benson Pond willows) Nashville Warbler MNWR Yellow-rumped Warbler MNWR Spotted Towhee MNWR Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow MNWR Lincoln's Sparrow MNWR White-crowned Sparrow MNWR Dark-eyed Junco MNWR Red-winged Blackbird MNWR Western Meadowlark MNWR Yellow-headed Blackbird MNWR Brewer's Blackbird MNWR Cassin's Finch American Goldfinch MNWR House Sparrow Good birding, everyone, Paul Sulllivan & Carol Karlen McMinnville