Hello All,
About mid-afternoon I received a phone call from a lady that told me she had just seen at least 15 "white birds that looked like egrets" setting along a board fence near some sprinklers out to the south west of College Place along Frog Hollow Rd. in Walla Walla Co.. So after phoning and e-mailing a number of birders in the area we took off for Frog Hollow Rd. to see the" white birds". After driving 7.3 miles we came upon the white birds that did indeed turn out to be Cattle Egrets. We counted 13 birds following a farmer and his John Deere tractor as he seeded an alfalfa field. 13 Cattle Egrets is the largest number ever seen and reported in Walla Walla Co. to date. The best way to reach the area is to go to Lowden on HWY 12 and just west of Lowden take the Lowden-Gardena Rd. south to Frog Hollow Rd., turn right or west onto Frog Hollow Rd. until you come to the jct of Barney Rd and Frog Hollow Rd. The egrets were in the field to the east of the road and were also seen to the south in the alfalfa field perched along the board fence beside Gardena Rd. Good Luck!
Later Mike

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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
1354 S. E. Central Ave.
College Place, WA 99324
509.529.0080 (h)

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