Subject: RBA: N ID / E WA / NE OR -- 03/31/2003
Date: Mar 31 22:42:06 2003
From: The Dumroese Family - dumroese at iGlide.net


- RBA

* northern Idaho / eastern Washington / northeastern Oregon
* as above
* March 31, 2003
* IDWA0303.31

- birds mentioned

TUFTED DUCK
Mew Gull
ICELAND GULL

- transcript

hotline: northern Idaho / eastern Washington / northeastern Oregon
Date: March 31, 2003
Phone: (208) 882-6195
Compiler: Kas Dumroese
Transcriber: Kas Dumroese - dumroese at iglide dot net

This is Kas Dumroese with the Northern Idaho / Eastern Washington /
Northeastern Oregon bird hotline for Monday 31 March (2003). This hotline,
sponsored by Palouse Audubon, is usually updated every Monday evening.
Transcripts of this RBA and membership info are available on-line at
http://www.palouseaudubon.org

Leave a message anytime during this recording by pressing 2 and then #.
Please give me good directions, your fellow birdwatchers will appreciate it.

The northern Idaho TUFTED DUCK was seen on 29 March, but was missed today 31
March in a cursory view of the flooded field. It may still be present. Let
me know if it is. Take I-90 exit 34 (Rose Lake), turn north to the T
intersection and turn right (onto Canyon Road). Go 1.9 miles, turn right
onto River Road. After you go over the interstate, turn right (downhill)
onto the graveled road (River Road). River Road runs south along the edge of
the flooded fields that are west of Tamarack Ridge; these fields can be seen
from the interstate. Very roughly a mile past the turn onto gravel, you will
see an open pasture on the left, and a street sign "Allgood Ct.". ID DeLorme
60, B-3. A nice map can be found in "A Birders Guide to Idaho," p 53.

Dennis Rockwell reports a pale first winter ICELAND GULL at Benton Co WA's
Two Rivers
Park on the Columbia River on 25 March. The park is east of Kennewick at the
confluence of the Columbia and the Snake. WA DeLorme 39, C-8.

A MEW GULL was at the Othello, Adams Co WA sewage ponds on 30 March
according to Carol Schulz and Bob Flores. Take Main Street west until it
dead ends at the ponds.

If you have any questions about birds on the report, call me before 9 pm at
208.883.0943. If you see any of the birds mentioned in this report, be sure
to let me know.

Good birding.

Kas