Tweeters,

Sorry about that first message. This one should be easier to read. (I'm
having trouble with my e-mail service.)

On Sunday, My father and I birded the Columbia Basin. We started near Coulee
City and birded our way south to Moses Lake. At Moses Lake we birded the
Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. The highlights of the trip were a
Short-eared Owl that we saw perched on the top of a telephone pole just east
of Coulee City on Highway 2 and an Upland Sandpiper. I think that the Upland
Sandpiper is an odd sighting for this area. We saw the bird about four or
five miles north of Ephrata on Sagebrush Flats Road near the top of a hill.
The bird was in a small area of bunch grass that hasn't been cultivated. We
scared him out of the grass when we pulled into a turnout. He flew onto the
road, and we got some very good views of him.

Birds seen:

Great Horned Owl
Violet-green Swallow
House Sparrow
Starling
Red-winged Blackbird
Magpie
Common Raven
Ring-billed Gull
Northern Harrier
Brewer's Blackbird
Red-tailed Hawk
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Redhead
Blue-winged Teal
Mallard
American Coot
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Cliff Swallow
Canada Goose
Killdeer
Western Meadowlark
Great Blue Heron
American Robin
Western Kingbird
Rock Dove
Barn Swallow
Gray Partridge
Short-eared Owl
Ring-necked Pheasant
Western Grebe
Gadwall
American Kestrel
Sage Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
White-throated Swift
Say's Phoebe
Sage Thrasher
Mourning Dove
California Quail
Brewer's Sparrow
Upland Sandpiper
Black-crowned Night Heron
Forester's Tern
Caspian Tern
Vesper Sparrow
Double-crested Commorant
Song Sparrow
Great Egret
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Eastern Kingbird
Bullock's Oriole
Yellow-breasted Chat
Black-headed Grosbeak
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Marsh Wren
Horned Lark
House Finch
Tree Swallow
Northern Flicker
Pine Siskin

Matthew Moskwik
Elk, WA
yuhaus at hotmail.com
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