Birding, photography youth group Cameraderie takes flight, preps for bird-a-thon

Birding, photography youth group Cameraderie takes flight, preps for bird-a-thon

WASHOUGAL — Summer vacation has been anything but restful for incoming Camas High School junior Shaunak Deshpande. While other high school students were working summer jobs, going on family vacations or just hanging out, Deshpande created a new youth group in partnership with Vancouver Audubon. He found business sponsors for the fledgling birding and photography group, organized and hosted fundraisers, held bird walks at the Steigerwald Lake Nat…