We have seen 2 Surf Scoters in the Yakima Delta area on 10/11 (best viewed
from Columbia Point in Richland). 1 was present was also there on 10/9.

Bill & Nancy



At 09:28 PM 10/12/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>After reading Scott Downs message I drove out to Vantage. I birded further
>down river ( the other side of I-90) and found 12 surf scoters.
>
>I then drove to Soap Lake looking for the long-tailed ducks. I found one
>with two white-winged scoters. I also found three surf scoters all of my
>sightings were on the south end from the parking lot.
>
>Who knows how many scoters there are out there right now?
>
>Bob Flores
>Othello, Wa