Frog Lake, Crab Creek and Marsh Trails	xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
HABITAT:	CNWR site with 2 miles of Crab Creek, more than 100 acres of riparian marsh, and shrub-steppe backed by a basalt butte.
BIRDING:	Spring brings Song and Lincoln’s Sparrows galore, plus numerous creek-side singers: Lazuli Buntings, Yellow-breasted Chats, Rock Wrens, Bullock’s Orioles, and Eastern and Western Kingbirds. Violet-green, Northern Rough-winged, Bank, Cliff, and Barn Swallows fly over the creek. Other birds include Common Nighthawks, Vesper and White-crowned Sparrows, and sometimes Sage Thrashers. Receding wetland waters in April and May provide forage for shorebirds: breeding Killdeer, Black-necked Stilts, American Avocets, Wilson’s Phalaropes, and Spotted Sandpipers. Migrating through going north are Western and Least Sandpipers, Dunlins, Greater Yellowlegs, and Long–billed Dowitchers, and, occasionally, Marbled Godwits and Black-bellied Plovers. A rare June visitor is the White-faced Ibis. Midsummer “marsh irrigations” attract Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plovers, 5 species of sandpiper and many other shorebirds.
VIEWING:	1-mile Crab Creek Trail, 1.5-miles of Marsh Interpretive Trail, and Frog Lake Butte loop are open April 1-Sept. 30; take 2-mile Frog Lake Trail all year (trail gains 200 feet in last half-mile up Frog Lake Butte.)
ACCESS:	At intersection of McManamon Rd and Morgan Lake Rd, turn north onto Morgan Lake Rd. Drive 3.5 miles. Park in lot on left (west). Cross road to trails.

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