Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: February 10, 2003
Phone: 509-627-BIRD
Compiler and Transcriber: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, wlafra at owt.com

BIRDS REPORTED

Varied Thrush, Killdeer
Loggerhead Shrike, Gray Partridge
Northern Goshawk
Eurasian Wigeon
Common Grackle, Western Screech-Owl
Prairie Falcon
Canvasback

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This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for February
10, 2003. For questions regarding LCBAS, please leave a message.

To skip the announcement, push the star button on your phone and give your
name, phone number, and sightings after the tone.

On January 23, Mary Lilga found 7 VARIED THRUSHES and 2 KILLDEER at the
Vernita Rest Stop.

Bob and Pat Woodley toured the south slope of Rattlesnake on January
25. They found 8 GRAY PARTRIDGE along Crooks Road and a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE
along Crosby Road. On February 8, Bob and Charlie Woodley found 2
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKES 1 still along Crosby Road and the other along Rothrock.

North of Leslie Groves Park, along the Columbia River on January 25, Dennis
Rockwell observed an immature NORTHERN GOSHAWK which attempted to take a
male Ring-necked Pheasant.

A EURASIAN WIGEON is once again at Leslie Groves Park in Richland. Katie
Crowley rediscovered it on January 31. Bob and Charlie Woodley saw it
there on February 9.

It appears that the COMMON GRACKLE that had been around Two Rivers Park
until January 4, may have moved across the river. Wayne Heinz and Lucie
Fritz had a Common Grackle at Hood Park on February 1. They also heard and
saw a WESTERN SCREECH-OWL in West Richland.

Dennis Rockwell reported a PRAIRIE FALCON hunting in the fields near Two
Rivers Park in Kennewick on February 6.

In addition to the above sightings for Bob & Charlie Woodley, they found a
PRAIRIE FALCON on the basalt cliffs along Old Inland Empire Highway on
February 8 and a female CANVASBACK at Columbia Point on February 9.

To report your own sightings, please give your name, phone number and
sightings after the tone. Thank you.