>Good Morning Tweeters,
>
>On 1 May, I had a male Red-naped Sapsucker in my yard north of Wapato in
>Yakima County. Although a fairly common summer resident of riparian habitats
>in the Cascades and northeastern WA, this was my first record from away from
>the mountains in Yakima County since I moved here in 1978.
>
>Can other Columbia Basin birders relate their records from Columbia Basin
>sites - especially those away from the mountains. I would be interested in
>the date and location of such sightings.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Andy Stepniewski
>Wapato WA
>
>

Thank goodness for databases.

4/21/93 1 in our yard in Richland
4/29/95 3 on ALE (Arid Lands Ecology Reserve) Tony Greager has more
records there too.
5/29/93 Coppei Creek, Walla Walla county (not quite in the Blues)
5/4/91 Turnbull NWR, Spokane

Other places and dates of Cascades and NE Washington:

Bethel Ridge/Tieton River 5/5/90, 5/19/90, 9/8/90, 6/6/92, 9/6/92, 6/5/93,
7/9/94, 4/13/96
North cascades, OK county 8/4/90
Sullivan lake, PO county 7/20/91, 6/20/92
FieldS Spring State Park, AS county 6/25/89




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