Hi, everyone --

I've gotten semi-involved in a project to involve rural high school girls
in science, particularly in ecology. There's a team of 4 students and a
couple teachers in Lake Roosevelt (near the Grand Coulee Dam? I've never
been there) who want to do monthly surveys of the bird, insect, & plant
life around their homes. They'd like some information about the common
birds that they are likely to see. I talked briefly to the high school
biology teacher there, and he floored me by saying that "no migrants" ever
come through the area, not even in spring. Now, I've never birded out
there but it seemed awfully unlikely! So, what birds ARE in that area and
in the nearby towns, and are there really "no migrants"?

Thanks -
Kathleen Hunt