Subject: LCBAS Alert 11-28-99
Date: Dec 9 15:36:15 1999
From: Brenton M. Ripley - brentr at hawlaw.com


Better late than never.

Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: November 28, 1999
Phone: 509-943-OWLS
Compiler: Bob Woodley
Transcribers: Brent Ripley

Birds reported:

GREAT TAILED GRACKLE
RUSTY BLACKBIRD
TRUMPETER SWAN
BONAPARTE?S GULL
PACIFIC LOON
WESTERN GULL
WILSON?S WARBLER
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
TUNDRA SWAN
COMMON REDPOLL
AMERICAN GOLDFINCH
EURASIAN WIDGEON
BALD EAGLE
PINE SISKIN
BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER
VARIED THRUSH
CATTLE EGRET
HOODED MERGANSER
BARROW?S GOLDENEYE

This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for November
28,
1999. 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.

Craig Corder and Judy Stevens reported a GREAT TAILED GRACKLE on November
11, near the Police Station at Mission near Pendelton. A Male RUSTY
BLACKBIRD on November 12, along Dodd/Iowa Beef Road just east of the plant
and a TRUMPETER SWAN and four BONAPARTE?S GULLS on November 13, at the
McNary?s Park in Umatilla.

On November 14, Nancy LaFramboise found a PACIFIC LOON off Columbia Park
near Bateman Island and a WESTERN GULL among the Gull?s on the Yakima
Delta. November 11 , Nancy and Kathy Criddle and Heidi Brunkal, found both
a WILSON?S and an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in W.E. Johnson Park. Dennis
Rockwell saw 26 TUNDRA SWANS over Hover Park on November 18.

There have been several reports of COMMON REDPOLLS. Nancy LaFramboise
found four in a flock of AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES in a birch tree along the
Prosser street in north Richland on November 19 . That same day Bill
LaFramboise found a flock of 15 in a birch tree near the intersection of
9th and Port of Benton Street in North Richland. The following day Dennis
Johnson saw 25-30 REDPOLLS at 745 E. Main in Othello and Dennis Blackwell
and Brent Ripley found about 40 REDPOLLS at the Battelle Labs in North
Richland and then a flock of 20 at Job?s Nursery north of Pasco and then in
Two-rivers Dennis saw a Male EURASIAN WIDGEON and a immature BALD EAGLE.

Dennis Rockwell also reported 2 PINE SISKINS at his feeders and a male
VARIED THRUSH in his yard at Two-Rivers Park on November 24 . A male BLACK
AND WHITE WARBLER along the park nature trail on November 26, , and a3rd
hand report of a CATTLE EGRET along Hess Road in the Whitstran area on
November 27, . Also on November 27 , Dennis Johnson found a Male EURASIAN
WIGEON in the Columbian Park duck pond, HOODED MERGANSERS in the park
fishing pond and an Adult BALD EAGLE near the Edison Street entrance in the
park.

Lastly, today I found about 12 COMMON REDPOLLS still in the birch trees at
the Battelle Labs in North Richland and a BARROW?S GOLDENEYE above Nelson
Island.

To report your own sightings, please give your name, phone number and
sightings after the tone. Thank you.

Brent Ripley
Kennewick, WA
mailto: brentr at hawlaw.com