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feeding on streambank globemallow (Iliamna rivularis)

Doing an interesting upside-down display

Northern Flicker male intergrade

First Washington record

with a Common Merganser

spent 35 minutes with him while hiking Badger Mtn, he found a puddle to drink from

in wet meadow/boggy area with many logs floating in water.

At least three individuals present at this location.

Not my observation, shared with me by biological technician

Growing in the thyme.

Possibly Cicindela pugetana? A bit overexposed and sharpened for a better view of the labrum, but still might be too obscured.

https://ebird.org/checklist/S119441272

3 juveniles sitting on a telephone wire basking in the late afternoon sun. The adult parent was perched on the wire above, keeping a watchful eye.

A pair appeared to be looking for a nesting site in the rock mulch of the garden.

Note pale eyebrow stripe; light brown speckled back and wings; whitish below; relatively long tail. This was one of a half dozen foraging on the rocks along the Columbia River.