Subject: Fw: Columbia Gorge sightings
Date: Jul 17 09:08:10 1998
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - godwit at worldnet.att.net




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> From: Ruth Sullivan <godwit at worldnet.att.net>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Columbia Gorge sightings
> Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 9:01 AM
>
> Hello Tweets,
>
> Yesterday(July 16th)my other and I birded from Clark to Klickitat Cos.,
> through the Columbia Gorge despite the last day of road construction from
> N.Bonneville to Bingen in several spots. The weather was great, but too
hot
> with temperatures in the upper 80's in Clark and Skamania Cos., and near
> 100 in Klickitat Co. locations. We started along Hwy. 14 in Washougal,
> where we scoped the Steigerwald NWR and located 20 L.B.DOWITCHERS, 12
> L.SANDPIPERS, 8 W.SANDPIPERS, and 1 GR.YELLOWLEGS. We checked Skamania
> Landing in Skamania Co., and were able to observe 3 pair of PURPLE
MARTINS
> occuping 3 nest boxes at the marina park. We drove east to Dallesport in
> Klickitat Co., and located several shorebirds in the ponds along Tidyman
> Rd., including 15 L.B.DOWITCHERS, 17 GR.YELLOWLEGS, 5 L.SANDPIPERS, 3
> W.SANDPIPERS, 1 C.SNIPE, and several nesting Killdeer and Spotted
> Sandpipers, along with nesting waterfowl, with mainly Canada Geese,
> Mallards, N.Shovelers, and B.W.Teal present.
>
> Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
> GODWIT at worldnet.att.net