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HABITAT:	State park of 5,000+ acres with 8 lakes, riparian trees, brush thickets, sagebrush, and rock canyons with walls of lichen-covered columnar basalt.
BIRDING:	In spring and summer, Lazuli Buntings prefer shrubs against talus slopes while Yellow-breasted Chats hide in thick riparian vegetation. During winter, lake ice reduces open water and forces concentration of waterfowl: American Coots, American Wigeons, Ruddy and Ring-necked Ducks, Common Mergansers, and Lesser Scaups, with a few Buffleheads, Hooded Mergansers, and Pied-billed Grebes.
VIEWING:	In spring, look in willows, water birches, and red-osier dogwoods for Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and for Wilson’s, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, and Orange-crowned Warblers. Song Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos come in fall and winter; Winter Wrens are also possible. Bald and Golden Eagles perch high in larger trees in winter. At Vic Meyer Lake: Walk 0.5-mile peninsula road. Watch both sides of lake for diver and dabbler ducks, and songbirds including Black-capped Chickadees and Marsh Wrens. At Deep Lake: Riparian shoreline attracts migrating Warbling Vireos, and summering Yellow-breasted Chats and Eastern Kingbirds. Kayak or canoe around narrow, cliff-bound lake to see Barrow’s Goldeneyes, numerous swallows and swifts, and possible Gray Catbirds.
ACCESS:	In spring, look in willows, water birches, and red-osier dogwoods for Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and for Wilson’s, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, and Orange-crowned Warblers. Song Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos come in fall and winter; Winter Wrens are also possible. Bald and Golden Eagles perch high in larger trees in winter. At Vic Meyer Lake: Walk 0.5-mile peninsula road. Watch both sides of lake for diver and dabbler ducks, and songbirds including Black-capped Chickadees and Marsh Wrens. At Deep Lake: Riparian shoreline attracts migrating Warbling Vireos, and summering Yellow-breasted Chats and Eastern Kingbirds. Kayak or canoe around narrow, cliff-bound lake to see Barrow’s Goldeneyes, numerous swallows and swifts, and possible Gray Catbirds.

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