Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: October 24, 1998
Phone: 509-943-OWLS
Compiler: Bob Woodley
Transcribers: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, wlafra at owt.com

Birds reported:

Mountain Chickadee, Rock & Winter Wren, Fox and White-throated .Sparrow,
Merlin
Black-bellied Plover
Pectoral Sandpiper, Bonaparte's Gull, Dunlin
Sandhill Crane
Long-eared Owl, Winter Wren
Common Loon, Downy Woodpecker, White-throated Sparrow
Great Horned Owl
Eurasian Wigeon, Hooded Merganser
Oldsquaw, Least & Pectoral Sandpiper, Dunlin, Franklin's Gull, Bonaparte's
Gull

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This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for October 24,
1998. 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 October 10, Dennis and Glenda Rockwell, birding at Crow Butte State
Park, found the previously reported MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE plus ROCK and WINTER
WRENS, HERMIT and VARIED THRUSHES, a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, and FOX &
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS. Also along Highway 221 north of Paterson, they
observed a MERLIN.

Craig Corder and Judy Stevens found a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER on the Yakima
Delta on October 11 while on the following day, Nancy LaFramboise and Ruth
Fischer noted a PECTORAL SANDPIPER and a BONAPARTE'S GULL on the delta. A
single DUNLIN was there on October 14 and 3 DUNLIN on October 15.

Also on the 15th, Scott Dietert reported a flock of SANDHILL CRANES over
the Columbia River in North Richland.

At Crow Butte State Park on October 17, Dennis Rockwell saw 2 LONG-EARED
OWLS and 2 WINTER WRENS while at Two Rivers Park (Finley) he noted a COMMON
LOON, a DOWNY WOODPECKER, and a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW.

On October 18, Ed Rykiel reported a GREAT HORNED OWL that roosts in the
trees along the river behind the WSU campus.

Roger and Patty Pollari found a EURASIAN WIGEON plus a pair of HOODED
MERGANSERS on the duck pond in Columbia Park on October 10.

A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW was seen by Bill and Nancy LaFramboise in their
(Richland) yard on October 23.

On that same day I (Bob Woodley) found an OLDSQUAW, LEAST and PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS, DUNLIN and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS on the Yakima Delta plus a
FRANKLIN'S GULL and 13 BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the upper end of Nelson Island.

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