----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Sullivan" <GODWIT at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Dennis K Rockwell" <dennis.rockwell at gte.net>; "Tweeters"
<tweeters at u.washington.edu>; "Inlanders" <inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [inland-NW-birders] migrant fallout


> Hello Dennis and Tweeters,
> I know exactly how you felt to see this many birds.It is realy
overwhelming
> to experience such event.Iheard birders trying to find a good migration
> trap.I always was wondering when birders talking or writing about
> fallouts,that most of this was exaggerete.But it took18 years of birding
to
> experince this myself.We was on a Big Day for the Yakima county on May the
> 11th of this year.As we approached our last stop on Hyw12 and 410 exact
> place the irrigation canal.This is also our stop on the birdathon in many
> years to get the Yellow breasted Chat.Never we had such amount happen
> there.We had Nahsville Warblers Orange-crowned Warbler,Yellow rumped
> Warblers and Ruby-croned Kinglet in the hundreds.We did not counted this
> birds at the time as we was thinking this is a count for the species,but
it
> would be impossible to count all this Warblers.We are real good to count
> Shorebirds counting 50 at one time and than multiplying.But this was to
much
> to realy count ,so in the final we this guessed how many,what proable was
> exaggereted.You have any idea how many you had?We went the followring
> week,and stopped there,but it was no birds there only the birds what we
> always expected.I heard of fallouts from birders in texas where the birds
> this falling down,but in Wahington this is rare.I am pleased you was
writing
> this up,and ask other birders maybe to write there experince with fallouts
> up from Washington
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis K Rockwell" <dennis.rockwell at gte.net>
> To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>; "Inlanders"
> <inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:40 PM
> Subject: [inland-NW-birders] migrant fallout
>
>
> > I'll preface this missive with the admission that all my birding, up
till
> > this point in time, has been done in Washington, Oregon, the Idaho
> > panhandle, western Montana & southern British Columbia. (If I win the
> > lottery before too long then I'll go for Phoebe Snetsinger's record, but
> > until then, time, money & the obligations of family are a reality that
> must
> > be accepted.) Therefore, having never been to Point Pelee or Cape May,
I
> > had never experienced a real migrant fallout, until today.
> >
> > However, today in Two Rivers County Park located in Benton County on the
> > bank of the Columbia River directly across stream from the mouth of the
> > Snake River I had a truly memorable birding experience when I discovered
> the
> > following list of birds out on the peninsula in the developed
(landscaped)
> > area of the park.
> >
> > 1 juvenile CHIPPING SPARROW - It took me a long time to come up with
the
> ID
> > on this bird as the possiblity
> > of
> > encountering a migrant still in juvenile plumage didn't occur to me
right
> > away.
> >
> > The warblers and vireos were impossible to count and I haven't even been
> > able to come up with any estimates that I would feel good suggesting, so
> > I'll just say that that there were numerous examples of each species I
saw
> > and some more than others and that for a morning in August in eastern
> > Washington it was staggering.
> >
> > WARBLING VIREO
> >
> > ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
> > NASHVILLE WARBLER
> > YELLOW WARBLER (all females !)
> > TOWNSEND'S WARBLER
> > MacGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER
> > WILSON'S WARBLER
> >
> > And just to sweeten the morning, the river level was down and thus some
> mud
> > and sand flats were exposed and so I also saw:
> >
> > 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS
> > 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS
> > 1 WESTERN SANDPIPER
> > 3 SPOTTED SANDPIPER
> >
> > Other birds noted:
> >
> > OSPREY
> > AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
> > BELTED KINGFISHER
> > a pie full of HOUSE FINCHES
> >
> > All in all, not a bad morning for carrying the binos around while
working.
> >
> >
> > Dennis Rockwell Kennewick, WA dennis.rockwell at gte.net
> >
> > A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
> > rearranging their prejudices.
> >
> > William James (1842-1910)
> >
> >
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