July 29 At the campsite the decoys attracted a pair (ad♂+ad♀) of Type 4 crossbills at around 8:00 am. They came right down into camp. No other crossbills were heard. I then took off to find a good site. I drove E to Colville, then N to Alladin and past this, N almost to the Canadian border. The cone crops were generally as they were at the Sherman Pass area. The road to Aladdin was through a valley -- all ranches too place to set up. I then crossed the Columbia River at Northport a I drove W on the road to Steel Creek campground. I stopped at a place about a mile from the C. River where the road went through a partially cleared area -- opened the car door + immediately heard both Type 2 + Type 4 crossbills, made a few recordings of birds calling + singing in the tarches (which here had a good (moderate) crop), but apparently just