Wayne, Randy and Tweeters,

Some other accessible and reliable locations for swans (often TRUMPETER
SWANS) in addition to those outlined below south of BC (north to south) at
this season include:
1 - Duley Lake on the Colville Indian Reservation - on the Cameron Lake
Road which is open to the public. Also excellent for Gyrfalcon, Snowy Owl,
and Snow Bunting. Sharp-tailed Grouse are scarce, but possible.
2 - Okanogan River north and east of Brewster and the slackwaters where it
enters the Columbia
3 - Banks Lake, especially the southeastern (a marshy area at about
Milepost 4 or 5 north of Coulee City) end
4 - about midway along Lake Lenore
5 - Kahlotus Lake northeast of Pasco (TUNDRA is all I've seen here, but
these can be abundant...if it has water!)

The great Washington WHOOPER hunt is on!

Andy Stepniewski
Wapato WA
steppie at wolfenet.com

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> From: WAYNE WEBER <WAYNE_WEBER at bc.sympatico.ca>
> To: TWEETERS <tweeters at u.washington.edu>; INLAND NW BIRDERS
<inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu>
> Subject: SWAN LOCATIONS IN E WASH (was: WHOOPER SWANS GONE)
> Date: Saturday, November 20, 1999 12:52 AM
>
> Dear Tweeters and Inland Birders,
>
> In my last message, I suggested that Atkins Lake (Douglas Co.)
> might be a good spot to look for the Whooper Swans that seem to have
> left Mamit Lake, B.C. The attached response from Randy Hill in
> Othello suggests that Moses Lake and lakes on the Columbia NWR would
> also be worth checking out.
> Randy, I hope you don't mind me copying your response to the
> masses, but I'll bet there are a few birders out there who would love
> to be the first to find Whooper Swans in Washington!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wayne C. Weber
> Kamloops, B.C.
> wayne_weber at bc.sympatico.ca
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hill <hill at cbnn.net>
> To: WAYNE_WEBER at bc.sympatico.ca <WAYNE_WEBER at bc.sympatico.ca>
> Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 10:26 PM
> Subject: Re: WHOOPER SWANS GONE
>
>
> >Wayne-
> >
> >I flew the waterfowl survey yesterday. We just added Atkins Lake as
> a
> >scheduled area this year because of reports of swan numbers last
> year.
> >Unfortunately, we had to cut out 5 locations to get the important
> spots in,
> >including all of the Douglas County locations. We did have 40+ swans
> on
> >Moses Lake, and 60+ on Columbia NWR. With everything else to count,
> there
> >isn't time to look at each bird, but I swear there were larger swans
> >(trumpeter or whooper) in one or both areas. I may head up that way
> >tomorrow to look, or at least check out the swans at CNWR since that
> is real
> >close.
> >
> >Randy Hill
> >Othello WA
> >hill at cbnn.net
> >randy_hill at fws.gov
> >
>