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Date: August 19, 2001
Location: Adams County, Washington

Low temperature: 60 degrees fahrenheit High temperature: 85 degrees fahrenheit
Wind direction: SW
Prevailing wind speed: 6-11 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%
Precipitation: none

On Aug 19, 2001, we found 76 species during 9 hours in eastern Adams
County WA concentrating on Hatton Rest Area, Washtucna, Palouse
River, Benge, Cow Lake, Sprague Lake & Ritzville. Fairly good
numbers of migrant warblers & flycatchers. Notworthy were 5 Solitary
Sandpipers at Washtucna, 1 Gray Flycatcher near Benge, 4 Black Terns
at Cow Lake + 3 more at Sprague Lake.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe 4
Eared Grebe 1
Western Grebe 2
American White Pelican 100 [1]
Double-crested Cormorant 25
Great Blue Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Canada Goose 100
Mallard 4
Cinnamon Teal 1
Northern Shoveler 2
Northern Harrier 4
Swainson's Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 8
American Kestrel 1
Ring-necked Pheasant 2
California Quail 10
American Coot 50
Killdeer 20
Black-necked Stilt 3 [2]
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Solitary Sandpiper 6 [3]
Spotted Sandpiper 10
Western Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 10
Baird's Sandpiper 10
Wilson's Phalarope 1
Red-necked Phalarope 5
Ring-billed Gull 2
Caspian Tern 3
Black Tern 7 [4]
Rock Dove 30
Mourning Dove 70
Common Nighthawk 1
Vaux's Swift 2 [5]
Western Wood-Pewee 5
Willow Flycatcher 1 [6]
Hammond's Flycatcher 2
Gray Flycatcher 1 [7]
Dusky Flycatcher 3
Say's Phoebe 2
Western Kingbird 10
Eastern Kingbird 6
Warbling Vireo 4
Black-billed Magpie 10
Common Raven 60 [8]
Horned Lark 200
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Bank Swallow 500 [9]
Cliff Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 12
Canyon Wren 1
House Wren 4
Marsh Wren 1
American Robin 10
European Starling 20
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Nashville Warbler 1 [10]
Yellow Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 [11]
Townsend's Warbler 1 [12]
MacGillivray's Warbler 1
Wilson's Warbler 10
Western Tanager 1 [13]
Vesper Sparrow 10
Savannah Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 12
Black-headed Grosbeak 1 [14]
Lazuli Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Western Meadowlark 80
Brewer's Blackbird 20
House Finch 10
American Goldfinch 10
House Sparrow 50

Footnotes:

[1] Sprague Lake
[2] Hatton Rest Area
[3] 5 Washtucna, 1 Hatton Rest Area
[4] 4 Cow Lake, 3 Sprague Lake
[5] Palouse River near Hooper
[6] Hatton Rest Area, migrant.
[7] near Benge, rare.
[8] 60 in flock east of Ritzville. Not crows.
[9] Sprague Lake concentration.
[10] Washtucna.
[11] Hatton Rest Ares. First of fall season.
[12] Ritzville. First of fall season.
[13] Hatton Rest area. migrant.
[14] Benge.

Total number of species seen: 76