OOPS. Looks like I should have originally posted this to Tweeters as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Beaudette <drtbrdr at earthlink.net>
To: Inland NW Messages <inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu>
Date: Friday, August 17, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: [inland-NW-birders] Chelan County Purple Martin


>Greetings,
>On August 16, I went on my evening walk at Wenatchee Confluence State
>Park in Chelan County, WA. I spotted a single Purple Martin in a swarm of
>about 400 birds; mostly Common Nighthawks, Bank and Barn Swallows, with
>a few Rough-winged Swallows and Vaux's Swifts, over the lake off the
>south end of Wenatchee Confluence State Park. As I worked through the
>gathering I identified a juv Purple Martin or possibly SY female Purple
>Martin in flight.
>Looking for the status of this species in eastern Wshington I checked these
>two good references:
>1] The Breeding Birds of Washington State by Smith, Matttocks and Cassidy,
>1997.
>No breeding was indicated in eastern Washington with the following possible
>exception.
>There was a positive breeding record indicated for the southwest corner of
>Klickitat
>County/or southeast corner of Skamania County. By the way, this publication
>is great
>for getting an overview of habitat usage by each species. I use it a
>lot.
>2] Birds in Washington State: a county comparison, by Ken and Laurie
>Knittle, 2001.
>This publication has checklists for all of the 39 counties of Washington
>State with
>abundance codes. There is also a handy Spreadsheet Comparison including
all
>of the species found in the state. The species are listed on the left side
>of this
>spreadsheet and the counties across the top, with eastern Washington
>counties
>listed as the first group and western Washington counties grouped next. The
>Purple Martin is listed for only two counties in eastern Washington: a code
>5 for
>both Benton and Okanogan Counties. A Code 5 means less than 5 records for
>that county.
>Does anyone know of any more records for eastern Washington or could this
>species
>possibly nest somewhere along the Columbia River in north central
>Washington? How
>about inland BC or Idaho?
>
>Good Birding,
>David Beaudette
>Wenatchee, WA
>drtbrdr at earthlink.net
>
>
>
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