There were two SOLITARY SANDPIPERS in a small drying pond just north of
the Red Robin Restaurant at Vancouver Mall this morning. There were also
WESTERN SANDPIPERS and MALLARDS.

This pond usually has cattails around it, but it looks like someone
decided that the pond shouldn't be there any more.

RK

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Ray Korpi "Somewhere deep in the grove of cottonwoods
Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA an owl with its dark split tongue
rkorpi at csci.clark.edu pronounces an end to day,
President, Oregon Field the beginning of night . . ."
Ornithologists --William Kloefkorn
**Inquiries on Oregon birds "Platte Valley Homestead," #26
always welcome**