Subject: 03-21 Wanapum-Vantage-Lower Crab Creek
Date: Mar 22 08:08:56 2003
From: Doug Schonewald - dschone8 at bentonrea.com


Barb and I decided to try one more time for the Red-throated Loon at
Wanapum Dam, pick up a few shrub-steppe birds in the Quillomene area, and
bird our way to the Sandhill Crane Festival in Othello via Lower Crab Creek
Road.
We had a great day in spite of the intermittent rain showers.

Hwy 26 River Access (Just after leaving I-90 onto Hwy 26)

Long-tailed Duck - 7
Bald Eagle - 1

Hwy 243

Chukar - 2
Prairie Falcon - 1

Wanapum Dam (and downriver to the islands):

Yellow-billed Loon - 1
Red-throated Loon - 1
Pacific Loon - 1
Common Loon - 6
Glaucous-winged Gull - 1
Violet-green Swallows - 13

Old Vantage Hwy

Loggerhead Shrike - 1
Sage Sparrow - 5
Rough-legged Hawk - 1
Say's Phoebe - 4
Chukar - 2
Bald eagle - 1

Lower Crab Creek Road

Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Northern Shrike - 1

Corfu Road (south):

Yellow-headed Blackbird - 200+
Northern Shrike - 1

Corfu Road (north):

Long-billed Curlew - 2

Hwy 26 (Grant & Adams counties)

Sandhill Crane - 1000+

Dodson Road

Great Horned Owl - 1
Canvasback - 6
Redhead - 2

52 species were observed. Not too bad considering we did almost no walking
during the day. Good luck and good birding.

Doug & Barb Schonewald
Moses Lake, WA
dschone8 at bentonrea.com