OPAS looks at Eastern Washington’s birds, plants

Published 1:20 pm Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society meets at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim.

Andy Stepniewski presents “Eastern Washington’s Shrubsteppe — in Birds and Plants.” Stepniewski is a birder, naturalist and author who hails from the shrubsteppes of Wapato,  where he has lived since 1978.

His studies of birds have concentrated on the sagebrush-covered hills of eastern Washington, trying to understand the birds of his home habitats. He not only wrote a county guide to birds, “The Birds of Yakima County Washington,” but he also was a lead author for the ABA Birdfinding Guide, “A Birder’s Guide to Washington.”

The program is free and open to the public.