Subject: Lower Columbia Basin Alert 9/12/96
Date: Sep 18 08:12:45 1996
From: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise - wlafra at owt.com


Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: September 12, 1996
Phone: 509-943-OWLS
Compiler: Bob Woodley
Transcribers: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, wlafra at oneworld.owt.com

Birds reported:

Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bateman Island migrants
Greater white-fronted Geese
Franklin's Gull
Common Tern
Northern Mockingbird
Great Egret
Merlin
Yakima Delta birds

-transcript

This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for September
12, 1996. For any questions regarding LCBAS call Mike Lilga at 946-8966.

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

On September 4, 10 year old Nathan Marshay (sp?) observed 2 RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCHES at his south Richland feeder and like any good birder, had 2
witnesses to verify his identification.

Nancy LaFramboise and I (Bob Woodley) observed the following birds on
Bateman Island on September 5: WARBLING VIREO, ORANGE-CROWNED, NASHVILLE,
YELLOW-RUMPED, TOWNSEND'S AND MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLERS, and WESTERN TANAGERS
along with numerous more common birds.

Mike and MerryLynn Denny counted 542 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on the
McNary National Wildlife Refuge on September 6. And found FRANKLIN'S GULL
and COMMON TERNS on the Walla Walla Delta.

On September 7. Tony Greager found an immature NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD at the
Buckskin Loop location where breeding took place this summer.

Also on September 7, I found 14 COMMON TERNS sitting on the upper end of
Nelson Island.

Among the more common birds on the Yakima Delta on September 9. Nancy
LaFramboise observed 38 GREAT EGRET, 2 SANDERLING, 6 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER,
and 4 RED-NECKED PHALAROPE.

On September 10, Ron and Carol Lauderback (sp?) noted the huge flock of
Greater White-fronted Geese at McNary Refuge and also photographed an early
MERLIN there.

Lastly, on September 10, Nancy LaFramboise, Ruth Fischer, and I birded the
Yakima Delta finding 15 GREAT EGRET, 38 RUDDY DUCKS, 2 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS,
both YELLOWLEGS, 2 SANDERLING, WESTERN and LEAST SANDPIPERS, 6 RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES, a DOWNY WOODPECKER and several other bird species.

I think you'll agree that migration is in full swing, so let's hear what you
are seeing.

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