On those same ponds at the intersection of Dodson Rd
and 7 SW I saw a Bewick's race Tundra Swan in with a
flock of 20+ Tundras. Six of us had great close up
looks. The yellow covered a large portion of the
bill, right up over the bridge and right to the
feather line at the top of the bill.

Ed Kane


--- Denny Granstrand <osprey at nwinfo.net> wrote:
> Hi Tweets,
>
> After getting skunked on the Iceland and Lesser
> Black-backed Gulls near
> Clarkston on Saturday, I birded in the Othello area
> today. Highlights in
> the Clarkston area were one Clark's Grebe on the
> Snake River and several
> Ring-billed Gulls with a pink wash on their breast
> and belly.
>
> Shortly after leaving Connell this morning, which
> does have a decent motel
> in case you are in that area and need one, going
> east on Hwy 260 I pulled
> over to check the map and noticed a hawk drifting
> toward me. It was a
> Ferruginous Hawk, which saved me the trip to the
> Juniper Dunes area.
>
> Kahlotus Lake is actually just a little bigger than
> a mud puddle but did
> have five dowitchers on it. Scootenty Reservior had
> few birds but lots of
> guys and hunting dogs at some sort of dog contest.
> I stopped at the Para
> Ponds north of Othello to check for the Ross's Goose
> that has been seen
> there for the past few weeks but didn't find it. I
> then did a circuit of
> the area searching for cranes and found many good
> sized flocks, especially
> on Roads 15.1SE and 14.8 SE east of D SE.
>
> I stopped at the overview of Royal Lake at the
> corner of 14.8 SE and F SE to
> scan the lake. There must have been 8000 Canada
> Geese on the lake, most of
> them the smaller sub-species. After ten minutes of
> scanning I spotted the
> Ross's Goose (or at least a Ross's Goose) in amongst
> all of the Canadas. It
> was well over half a mile away. My photos of it are
> not very good
> considering the distance but are recognizable.
>
> I went to Moses Lake to try to get a photo of a
> Clark's Grebe but didn't
> find one. I did see one Burrowing Owl on Dodson
> Road just north of
> Frenchman Hills Road. On the ponds west of that
> intersection were five
> Black-necked Stilts, one Greater Yellowlegs, thirty
> Tundra Swans and four
> Cinnamon Teal.
>
> Denny Granstrand
>
>
> * * * * * * * * * * *
> * Denny Granstrand *
> * Yakima, WA *
> * osprey at nwinfo.net *
> * * * * * * * * * * *
>
>
>


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