- RBA

* northern Idaho / eastern Washington / northeastern Oregon
* as above
* May 31, 2004
* IDWA04.05.31

- birds mentioned

White-faced Ibis
Mountain Quail
Great Gray Owl
Northern Mockingbird
Clay-colored Sparrow

- transcript

hotline: northern Idaho / eastern Washington / northeastern Oregon
Date: 31 May 2004
Phone: (208) 882-6195
Compiler: Kas Dumroese
Transcriber: Kas Dumroese

This is Kas Dumroese with the Northern Idaho / Eastern Washington /
Northeastern Oregon bird hotline for Monday 31 May (2004). 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 the recording by pressing 2 and then #.
Please give me good directions, your fellow birdwatchers will appreciate it.

On 19 May, Randy Hill watched 2 WHITE-FACED IBIS fly around Para Ponds in
Grant Co WA. From Othello go north on Broadway (west end of town extending
north from WA 24) past the processing and storage facilities and as the road
crosses the RR tracks it becomes McManamon Road. Continue across the canal
and down the hill past the 2 potato sheds. The Para Ponds are just beyond on
both sides of the road. WA DeLorme 53, B-7.

On 18 May, Scott Downes reports a singing CLAY-COLORED SPARROW northeast of
Jameson Lake in Douglas Co WA. To get to the spot, take Road L, aka Heritage
Road north from US 2, until you intersect with Road 6. Continue on Heritage
Road about 0.5 mile and to the northwest is a shrub-steppe patch surrounded
by a plowed field about 100 yards off the road. For privacy concerns, you'll
need to try from the road and not go into the patch, but it may still be
possible to get the bird. WA DeLorme 85, C-5.

Also in WA, a pair of CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, these in northwestern Whitman
Co, were spotted 23 May by Scott Downes and Diane and Tom Weber in the last
remaining acre of Whitman Co big sagebrush. Location is on the George Knott
Road, approximately 2 miles west of Texas Lake. The area contains a grouping
of cottonwoods with a small pond hidden from the road in the shallow
drainage. The sagebrush is south of the road and the birds were in the
western section of the sage. WA DeLorme 72, D-1.

Dennis Rockwell reports that the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society, on a
field trip to Wallowa Co, OR 20 to 23 May, found a pair of MOUNTAIN QUAIL on
the Old Imnaha Road along Trail Creek and a GREAT GRAY OWL between mileposts
8 & 9 on the Hat Point Road.

Possibly 2 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS are residing around Grant Co WA. Randy Hill
passed along a report of one bird seen last week on Road E SE in Grant Co on
top of Frenchman Hills, and Randy saw a bird himself on 28 May along the
east boundary of Columbia NWR (Potholes Canal) heading from Long Lake toward
Upper Hampton Lake.

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