>Hi, gang:
>Next week I have to do the thrilling I-90/82/84 trip. Anyone have
>suggestions for spots to lunch/see birdguys?
>Irene

Unless, it's just too much out of your way, it would be easy to use I-182
(good freeway) to get around the north side of Pasco onto U.S. 12, then
down the east side of the Columbia. On the very left edge of DeLorme p.
40, you can turn off U.S. 12 onto McNary NWR (watch for the sign), to where
the little north-south road crosses Burbank Slough at Burbank Heights.
There were a lot of marsh birds there, including white pelicans, last
weekend. Continue farther south, hold your breath as you go by the huge
Boise-Cascade paper mill at Attalia, then you can pull off the road above
the mouth of the Walla Walla River just north of Wallula Junction and look
down onto the delta, where there are a lot of birds, mostly California &
Ring-billed Gulls and Caspian Terns but also shorebirds and more white
pelicans. You'd need a spotting scope. Highway 730 will take you back to
I-82.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416