On Friday, Feb. 27, I visited Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., Idaho, to see
if the river otter was still harassing the waterfowl. It wasn't but I did
find some interesting birds.

Mann's Lake: Fourteen Tundra Swans were resting at the far end of the lake.
There weren't very many ducks and geese on the lake but that was probably
due to the large number of anglers on the bank and several people were
flying the remote-controlled planes at the RC airport. The most common duck
was Buffleheads, followed by Mallards, Common Mergansers, Canvasbacks,
American Wigeon, and Lesser Scaup. There were at least nine Killdeer
running around the banks.

West Levy Pond and Clearwater River: The levy pond was rather busy with all
of the domestic and wild waterfowl back to normal behavior, begging for
bread. The usual suspects were there: Mallards, Wood Ducks, American
Widgeons, Canada Geese, Buffleheads, and American Coots. There was one male
Northern Shoveler and one male Green-winged Teal, both of which are uncommon
on this pond. The Clearwater River was full of waterfowl as well including
a large flock of goldeneyes, with Barrow's Goldeneyes being more numerous
than Commons. There was large groups of Mallards and Canada Geese on the
river as well. Several Song Sparrows were singing in the bushes around the
pond.

Swallow's Park, Clarkston, Asotin Co., Washington: As usual, the large flock
of Canada Geese and American Wigeons were grazing on the grass of the park.
The gull flock has dwindled down to just a few birds. There was only three
gulls, all adult Ring-billed Gulls.

Deb Beutler
Department of Zoology
P.O. Box 644236
Washington State Univerisity
Pullman, Whitman Co., WA
dbeutler at wsunix.wsu.edu