Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: September 23, 1997
Phone: 509-943-OWLS
Compiler: Bob Woodley
Transcribers: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, wlafra at oneworld.owt.com

Birds reported:

Red-necked Phalarope
Common Tern, Forster's Tern
Marbled Godwit
Pectoral Sandpiper
Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Townsend's Solitaire, Spotted Towhee
Black-chinned Hummingbirds
Osprey, Peregrine Falcon, Black-bellied Plover, Marbled Godwit, Pectoral
Sandpiper, Sabine's Gull, Common Tern
Greater White-fronted Goose
Sandhill Crane
Marbled Godwit, American Avocet, Great Egret, Ring-necked Duck, Wood Duck,
Ruddy Duck
American Golden-Plover, American Avocet, American Pipit
Hermit Thrush
Virginia Rail
Eared Grebe, Great Egret, Peregrine Falcon, Black-bellied Plover, Common Tern
Sabine's Gull, Black Tern, Common Tern
fall migrants - Columbia Point

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This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for September
23, 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 September 16, Tom Aversa, a Seattle birder, found 5 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES
on the McNary Refuge while at the Peninsula Wildlife Management Area he
observed 28 COMMON TERNS and 2 FORSTER'S TERNS.

The following day, September 17, Nancy LaFramboise discovered a MARBLED
GODWIT and PECTORAL SANDPIPER on the Yakima Delta.

Also on the 17th, Mary Lilga observed a RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET and TOWNSEND'S
SOLITAIRE in her North Richland yard while on the 19th the yard attracted a
SPOTTED TOWHEE.

Mike Denny reported both RUFOUS and BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRDS at his
College Place feeder on September 18, while on September 19, he found on the
Walla Walla Delta an OSPREY, an adult PEREGRINE FALCON, 5 BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER, a MARBLED GODWIT, PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, an immature SABINE'S GULL and
COMMON TERNS. On Casey Pond, Mike saw 210 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE.

In other reports on September 19, Nancy Knowlton saw 6 flocks of SANDHILL
CRANE pass over her West Richland home and Nancy LaFramboise rediscovered
the MARBLED GODWIT on the Yakima Delta plus an AMERICAN AVOCET, GREAT EGRET,
16 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 2 WOOD DUCKS, and 34 RUDDY DUCKS.

On September 20, while searching for the Marbled Godwit which I didn't find,
I (Bob Woodley) did observe an OSPREY, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, and an
AMERICAN PIPIT.

Mike and Mary Lilga found 2 HERMIT THRUSHES in their North Richland yard on
September 22.

Also on September 22, Ron Louderback photographed 2 or 3 VIRGINIA RAILS
along the McNary Refuge Nature Trail.

On the Yakima Delta on September 22, Nancy LaFramboise and I found 4 EARED
GREBES, a GREAT EGRET, an adult PEREGRINE FALCON, a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER,
other assorted shorebirds, and 2 COMMON TERNS. A little later near Nelson
Island (Richland), I found 2 immaature SABINE'S GULLS, 8 COMMON TERNS, a
BLACK TERN and a LINCOLN'S SPARROW.

Today in the Columbia Point area, Nancy LaFramboise and I observed among a
myriad of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, a DOWNY WOODPECKER, a WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE,
2 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS and an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. Upriver I found a
HORNED GREBE, an immature SABINE'S GULL and 2 COMMON TERNS.

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