Sorry if I missed an earlier post, but where exactly is Atkin's Pond?

Gene Hunn.

On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, Dan Stephens wrote:

> I observed a "Black" Merlin (_F.c. suckleyi_) from my front yard Sunday,
> Sept. 3. It was the first _suckleyi_ I have seen in Wenatchee in the
> five years I have lived here. Merlins are fairly common in town in the
> winter, they are _F. c. columbarius_. I've read that _suckleyi_ does not
> migrate much, but occationally moves south and east from its breeding areas.
> Does this sound correct? Does this seem like a early record? A report
> of a _richardsonii_ from the SE corner of the state last week puzzles me.
> Do the prairie merlins disperse west and the NW coastal birds move east?
>
> Five minutes later we saw a female Black-chinned Hummingbird at our Cannas.
>
> Saturday I lead the annual NCW Audubon shorebird field trip. We covered
> 320 miles. Nothing unusual, a juv. Pectoral Sandpiper allowed the whole
> group (10 people) to approach within 3 meters at Atkin's Lake. A
> suspicious, single Long-billed Dowitcher juv. at the small pond on the
> north side of Hwy 26 10.4 miles from Othello (just in Grant Co.); got
> photos. The usual shorebirds spots were empty, the ephemeral ponds were
> hopping (Yellowlegs, Westerns, Baird's, Leasts). Jon Anderson had a good
> post on these ephemeral ponds recently.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Dan Stephens (509) 662-7443
> Dept. of Biology fax: (509) 664-2538
> Wenatchee Valley College e-mail: dstephen at ctc.edu
> 1300 Fifth Street
> Wenatchee, WA 98801
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