Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: April 5, 1996
Phone: 509-943-OWLS
Compiler: Bob Woodley
Transcribers: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, wlafra at oneworld.owt.com

Birds reported:

Cedar Waxwing
Ross' Goose
Northern Mockingbird
Townsend's Solitaire
Blue-winged Teal
Common Snipe
American Avocet
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Mew Gull
Cinnamon Teal
Black-necked Stilt
Sandhill Crane
Glaucous Gull

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This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for April 5,
1996. For any questions regarding LCBAS call Mike Lilga at 946-8966.

Ruth Fischer reported 10 CEDAR WAXWINGS in her yard on March 29 and 30.
While not unusual, these beautiful birds are well worth seeking out.

Mike Denny reported a ROSS' GOOSE at the Bailie Memorial Youth Ranch
Wildlife Management Area on a small lake north of Hendricks Road, about 7
miles west of Highway 17. See Delorme Atlas page 53, C7. He also reported
a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD about 1/2 mile south of Hendricks Road where the
canal out of the aforementioned lake passes under the powerline.

Two TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRES were seen on April 2 (in Richland). One on Saint
and George Washington Way by John Shade and one in Hills West by Marian Goheen.

Nancy LaFramboise found a male BLUE-WINGED TEAL on the Yakima Delta in the
morning of April 3. She and her husband Bill found 10 COMMON SNIPE, 1
AMERICAN AVOCET, 1 DUNLIN, molting into its alternate plumage, and 1
GREATER YELLOWLEGS on the Yakima Delta that evening.

Also on April 3, Warren Hall and Jim Acton found an adult MEW GULL among
Ring-billed, California, and Herring Gulls on the Othello sewage lagoons as
well as 2 male and 1 female CINNAMON TEAL. Along Highway 26, just west of
the Grant county line, they observed 2 BLACK-NECKED STILT, 5 AMERICAN
AVOCET, and several GREATER YELLOWLEGS. A little farther west about 300-400
SANDHILL CRANES were seen. Also they found 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS at the Walla
Walla Delta area that same day.

More and more interesting birds will be in evidence now, so please share
your sightings.

To report your own sightings, please give your name, phone number and
sightings after the tone. Thank you.


Bill and Nancy LaFramboise
Richland, WA
wlafra at oneworld.owt.com