Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: July 7, 2003
Phone: 509-627-BIRD
Compiler and Transcriber: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, wlafra at owt.com

BIRDS REPORTED

Mountain Bluebird, Western Grebe, Red-breasted Nuthatch
Black-necked Stilt
Cinnamon Teal, Black-necked Stilt, Wilson's Snipe, Pied-billed Grebe
Black-headed Grosbeak
Western Screech-Owl
Western Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, Great Egret

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This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for July 7,
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.

After a few quiet weeks new sightings are being reported. Time to be
looking for southward migration!

Dana Ward reported a male MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD along Route 240 along the
Hanford Reservation on June 13. On June 16 he noted a WESTERN GREBE along
the Pasco shoreline at Road 48. Dana continues to find RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCHES near Maple Drive in Pasco. This is a species that needs to be
documented as breeding in the area. Birds carrying food or young heard in
a cavity with adults visiting should be reported.

On June 26, Annet and Jim Dittmer discovered breeding BLACK-NECKED STILTS
along Road 68 in Pasco 1/2 mile north of Dogwood, on the west side of the
road. Differing ages of young were present.

On June 28, north of Hermiston 1/2 east of the intersection of Bensel and
Sagebrush Roads, Annet and Jim Dittmer found the following: several broods
of CINNAMON TEAL, 2 pair of BLACK-NECKED STILTS, 5 WILSON'S SNIPE, and 5
young PIED-BILLED GREBES.

Kathy Criddle noted male and female BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS in her Richland
yard on June 29. A young bird was being fed by the male.

On July 5, Annet and Jim Dittmer had a WESTERN SCREECH-OWL in their
Kennewick yard.

Today, July 7, at the west end of the Yakima Delta, Nancy LaFramboise noted
a flock of WESTERN SANDPIPERS as well as a GREATER YELLOWLEGS. A GREAT
EGRET was just east of the Bateman Island causeway.

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