Subject: Sabine's Gulls at Columbia NWR
Date: Sep 22 18:28:42 2004
From: Hill - hill at smwireless.net


This morning I found what appeared to be adult and juvenile Sabine's Gulls at Migraine Lake in Columbia NWR. Both were distant and looking toward the sun. I returned later in the afternoon and saw the wing on the juvenile and the yellow-tipped bill on the alternate-plumage adult. There are also around 30 Bonaparte's Gulls and 50+ Red-necked Phalaropes. Migraine Lake is visible from the Soda Lake dam. Take SR 262 from either SR 26 or SR 17 to the Lind Coulee arm of Potholes Reservoir. Turn south and go two miles to the "T" and go left 0.2 miles to the dam. Look south.

This morning along the Crab Creek trail we caught our first Varied Thrush. Lots of Orange-crowned Warblers moving through also, both yellow and gray races.

Randy Hill
Othello
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