Subject: HOTLINE: n ID / e WA 04/22/94
Date: Apr 25 07:56:15 1994
From: "PETERSON, STACY JON" - petest at wwc.edu


- RBA
* northern Idaho / eastern Washington
* Apr 22, 1994
* IDWA9404.22

- Birds mentioned

SANDHILL CRANES
AMERICAN AVOCETS
BLACK-NECKED STILTS
AMERICAN PIPITS
BLUE JAY
WESTERN KINGBIRD

- transcript

HOTLINE
Region: northern Idaho / eastern Washington
Date: April 22, 1994
Phone: (208) 882-6195
Compiler: Kas Dumroese
Transcriber: Stacy Peterson
petest at wwc.edu

This is Kas Dumroese with the northern Idaho / eastern Washington bird
hotline for Friday, April 22, (1994). If you wish to bypass this
recording and simply leave a message for me, including the date of your
sighting and the DeLorme atlas page number if you have it, push the star
button on your telephone now.

This hotline, sponsored by Palouse Audubon, is updated every Friday
sometime bebore the dinner hour. Bird trips and meetings are announced
at the end of the recording.

Birds of note reported this week include SANDHILL CRANES, BLACK-NECKED
STILTS, AMERICAN AVOCETS, AMERICAN PIPITS, BLUE JAY, and WESTERN
KINGBIRD.

Mike Denny saw 6 SANDHILL CRANES, 5 BLACK-NECKED STILTS, and 6 AMERICAN
AVOCETS at the Scooteney Reservoir on April 16. The Scooteney is between
Othello and Mesa, Washington, along Washington Highway 17, in northern
Franklin County. See Washington DeLorme page 53, C as in chickadee, 8.

Cindy McCormack reports more AMERICAN AVOCETS and BLACK_NECKED STILTS at
Crooked Knee Lake in northwestern Whitman County, Washington, on April
17. Crooked Knee is along Washington Highway 23 between Ewan and
Sprague. See Washington DeLorme page 72, halfway between B as in buteo
and C as in chickadee, 1.

Dale Goble has a BLUE JAY visiting his feeder in Moscow. Dale lives at
728 Homestead Place. Stop by and listen, or give Dale a call at (208)
882-7697. Dale also reports the 2 dozen AMERICAN PIPITS he first saw on
April 13 just north of Moscow were still there as of April 19. He saw
them near the intersection of Polk and Foothill Roads. See Idaho DeLorme
page 58, halfway between B as in buteo and C as in chickadee, 1.

Mike Denny saw 3 early WESTERN KINGBIRDS along Hollingsworth Road north
of Pasco on April 16. Hollingsworth runs between US 395 and the Columbia
River. See Washington DeLorme page 53, D as in dowitcher 6 and 7.

I know of two upcoming bird trips. On May 7 the Canyon Birders will be
birding my 50 acre yard on the south end of Paradise Ridge just south of
Moscow. Both the birds and wildflowers should be good. If you have any
questions, please call Winnie Hepburn at (208) 843-5347. On May 14,
Palouse Audubon will bird Kamiak Butte just north of Pullman. Meet at
the kiosk parking lot at 9 a.m. They plan to bird until noon, so bring a
sack lunch. Call Dana Catts at (509) 334-6633 for more information.

Palouse Audubon has a presentation coming up. On May 18, Jim Pissot,
Director of the Washington State Audubon Office will talk about the
decline of neotropic migrants and the international program to stop the
decline. His presentation is at the Moscow Community Center on the
corner of Third and Washington Streets and starts at 7:30 p.m.

Good birding!

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