Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: December 2, 1997
Phone: 509-943-OWLS
Compiler: Bob Woodley
Transcribers: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, wlafra at oneworld.owt.com

Birds reported:

Townsend's Solitaire
Yellow Warbler
Red-necked Grebe, Red-shouldered Hawk, Winter Wren, Harris' and
White-throated Sparrow
Cattle Egret [2]
Gyrfalcon
American Pipit
Rusty Blackbird
Tundra Swan
Eurasian Wigeon

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This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for December 2,
1997, 1997. For any questions regarding LCBAS call Mike Lilga at 946-8966.

To skip the message, push the star button on your phone and give your name,
phone number, and sightings after the tone.

On November 21, Phil Bartley found a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE near the Columbia
River in North Richland.

An extremely late YELLOW WARBLER appeared in Bill & Nancy LaFramboise's yard
on November 23 and on that same day, they observed a RED-NECKED GREBE,
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, a WINTER WREN, 2 HARRIS' SPARROWS and a WHITE-THROAT4ED
SPARROW in Madame Dorian Park at Wallula Junction. Bill indicated that Mike
& MerryLynn Denny had seen 4 HARRIS' SPARROWS there.

Dennis Rockwell learned from a Stanfield, Oregon friend on November 23, that
2 CATTLE EGRET were present north of Highway 84 and just north of exit 188,
on the west bank of the Umatilla River.

Also on November 23, Phil Bartley found a gray phase GYRFALCON just south of
Badger Mountain and an AMERICAN PIPIT on top of the mountain.

The following day, Phil discovered a RUSTY BLACKBIRD on the compost piles
across Highway 12 from the Boise-Cascade pulp mill (near Wallula).

On November 25, Greg Greger reported that 3 TUNDRA SWAN had been present for
the last seven days on pond #4 (near headquarters) at the McNary National
Wildlife Refuge and he had seen as many as 38 fly by during that period.

The 2 CATTLE EGRET near Stanfield, OR were still present on November 26
according to Dennis Rockwell who also found 38 TUNDRA SWAN on the Cold
Springs Reservoir, 2 EURASIAN WIGEON drakes at Hat Rock State Park and the
aforementioned RUSTY BLACKBIRD. On November 28, Dennis saw the HARRIS' and
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS at Madame Dorian Park.

3 CATTLE EGRET were discovered by Bob Gulley in a pasture along Shockley
road just a short distance south of its junction with Keene Road in southern
Richland. Several of us viewed these birds on December 1 and Ruth Fischer
reported that they are still present today.

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