Yesterday Juliet and I went birding in the Conconully and Okanogan Highlands regions of our county. Birding was slow with not a lot of active birds around but the light on the snow-covered hills was enough to make us stop repeatedly and comment about the beauty that lay before us.
We were surprised to find a Yellow-rumped Warbler along the Okanogan river and closed out our birding day watching a Short-eared Owl hunting at dusk.
I wonder if this is a type of sun dog?
The Okanogan Highlands offer endless vistas
A glorious sunset before we had to go down into the fog-filled valley
And at the end of the day we were wowed by the same sort of colors we saw early in the morning when we descended from the Loup into the Okanogan Valley
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