In mid-June my wife and I took a trip to the Winthrop, WA area, just east of the Cascades. Due to the lack of snow pack this year, the park at Washington Pass was fully open/accessible.  Our picnic brought out Gray jays and Clark’s nutcrackers, one of which is pictured below.

One of my favorite birding sites in the Winthrop area is Beaver Pond on the lower slopes of Sun Mountain.  In past years I’ve photographed Red-naped sapsuckers with nests in a particular Aspen tree, but this year the nest hole had been taken over by a pair of House wrens.  There were at least two pair nesting, and feeding young, in the same general area.

I never found the nest, but this Song sparrow was also feeding young in the same general area.  There seemed to be no shortage of insects for the birds!

And finally, for this post, an Eastern kingbird, a large flycatcher which can be found along open fields in the area.