We were originally headed to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, but we got turned around on the highway and found ourselves at Fish Lake. It was a beautiful day, so why not?
Turns out there was plenty to see on our mostly flat, paved trail, including chipmunks, some kind of water rodent (water vole?), frogs and many birds.
I don't know who this is... a House Wren, perhaps?
This guy is a turkey vulture. I'd blow up the photo so you could see his reddish head, but it's too fuzzy (the photo, not his head).
Columbia Plateau Trail State Park is a rail-bed trail (that explains why it's mostly flat and paved) that, according to the web site, "... traces the original path of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad."
As you might expect, we saw and heard several trains over the course of our walk.
