Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: August 26, 2004
Phone: 509-627-BIRD
Compiler and Transcriber: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, wlafra at owt.com

BIRDS REPORTED

Lazuli Bunting
warblers, Marbled Godwit
Warbling Vireo
Marbled Godwit, Stilt Sandpiper

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This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for August 26,
2004. 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, date, and sightings after the tone.

Migration is certainly starting. Please remember to update this alert with
your sightings.

On August 16, Gary Roberts reported 2 LAZULI BUNTING in Richland.

Nancy LaFramboise found 6 species of warblers on Bateman Island on August
23. There were good numbers of ORANGE-CROWNED, YELLOW AND YELLOW-RUMPED
WARBLERS. In addition there were 1 TOWNSEND'S, 1 NASHVILLE and 3
MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLERS. On the Yakima Delta that day there were 2 MARBLED
GODWITS.

On August 24, Laurie Ness reported 4 WARBLING VIREOS in her North Richland
yard.

Also on the 24, the 2 MARBLED GODWITS remained at the Yakima Delta and up
to 3 STILT SANDPIPERS were seen. On August 26, there were 4 MARBLED
GODWITS at the Yakima Delta.

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