Tweeters,

I'm passing on this news from Randy Hill, Biologist with the Columbia NWR.

Andy Stepniewski
Wapato WA

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> From: randy_hill at mail.fws.gov
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Sabine's Gull
> Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 7:22 AM
>
>
> Birds are moving through the interior. Yesterday making the rounds
I
> saw an immature Sabine's Gull on Long Lake, south of Potholes
> Reservoir. Also a couple of Red-necked Grebes on Royal Slough,
> between Royal City and Othello on Columbia NWR. The saline wetland
> along Highway 26 had several Baird's and single Pectoral and Stilt
> Sndpipers as well as the abundant Western and some Least. There
were
> still American Avocets at the ponds along McManamon Road just NW of
> Othello, and lots of peeps, but I didn't have time to stop.
Shorebird
> numbers overall seem to be higher than two weeks ago, but the
> Black-necked Stilts and Wilson's Phalaropes may be gone already.
Hot
> weather continues. Randy Hill, Othello.
>