Hello All,

Our day started off at 10 A.M. due to prolonged owling last night/this morning. The first stop was at the corner of McDonold and Detour Rd. west of Walla Walla south off HWY 12. Here we located 14 Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 Black-bellied Plover, 9 Greater Yellowlegs, 52 Long-billed Dowitchers, 19 Killdeer and a lone BRIGHT PLUMAGED sub-adult SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER! Also 15 Wilsons Snipe and 4 Sandhill Cranes were in this flooded pasture.

Out on the Walla Walla River delta we observed the following species:
7 Great Egrets.........most we have ever seen there.
1 Franklins Gull........sub-adult bird
71 Long-billed Dowitchers......average numbers
2 Bonapartes Gulls
2 Caspian Terns.......1 adult & 1 sub-adult, a bit late.
2 Common Terns
1 Osprey
5 Western Sandpipers

At Hood Park

6 Orange-crowned Warblers
425 Yellow-rumped Warblers
1 partial albino Yellow-rumped Warbler

Thats all folks
Later Mike


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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
323 Scenic View Drive
College Place, WA 99324
509.529.0080 (h)

IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN BIRDING, YOU HAVEN'T LIVED!
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