Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: August 26, 1996
Phone: 509-943-OWLS
Compiler: Bob Woodley
Transcribers: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, wlafra at oneworld.owt.com

Birds reported:

McNary NWR pond shorebirds (Stilt Sandpiper, Black-necked Stilt)
Yakima Delta shorebirds (Solitary and Baird's Sandpipers)
migrating warblers
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Western Wood-Pewee
American Bittern
Great Egret
Black-chinned, Rufous, and Calliope Hummingbirds
Walla Walla Delta shorebirds (Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling)

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This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for August 26,
1996. For any questions regarding LCBAS call Mike Lilga at 946-8966.

To bypass the announcement, push the * button on your phone and leave a
message after the tone.

On August 17, Dennis Rockwell found the following shorebirds on the McNary
National Wildlife Refuge, at the pond along Highway 12 at mile 300: 1
BLACK-NECKED STILT, 1 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 7 LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, 6 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 1 STILT SANDPIPER, 2 COMMON SNIPE, and
20+ WESTERN SANDPIPERS. Also on August 17, he found a MACGILLIVRAY'S
WARBLER along the nature trail in Two Rivers Park. And on the following day
along the nature trail, he found 1 female WIILSON'S WARBLER, 1 female
WESTERN TANAGER, and 1 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.

Ruth Fischer and Nancy LaFramboise found a WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE in Ruth's
Richland yard on August 15. And on August 19, they observed an AMERICAN
BITTERN near the McNary National Wildlife Refuge headquarters and a GREAT
EGRET, a BLACK-NECKED STILT, a GREATER YELLOWLEGS, several LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHERS and WESTERN SANDPIPERS at the pond along Highway 12 at mile 300.
Ruth also noted a BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD, a RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, and a
CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD at her feeder on August 19.

On August 22, Ruth and Nancy found 2 NASHVILLE, 2 ORANGE-CROWNED, and 1
YELLOW WARBLER, and 1 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH on Bateman Island.

On the Yakima Delta on August 24, I (Bob Woodley) observed 2 GREAT EGRETS, 1
AMERICAN AVOCET, 7 GREATER AND 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 2 SOLITARY, 5 SPOTTED,
62+ WESTERN and 6 LEAST SANDPIPERS and 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER. Nancy
LaFramboise noted that 1 of the SOLITARY SANDPIPERS remained on August 25.

This morning, August 26, the Yakima Delta yielded 4 GREAT EGRETS, a
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS, 6 GREATER AND 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS,
1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER, many WESTERN AND LEAST SANDPIPERS and at least 3
BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS.

Mike Denny just called to relate that the Walla Walla Delta hosted many of
the same birds plus a RUDDY TURNSTONE and 5 SANDERLING.

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