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Date: September 22, 2004
Location: O'Sullivan Dam, Grant County, Washington

Low temperature: 72 degrees fahrenheit High temperature: 72 degrees fahrenheit
Wind direction: Variable
Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%
Precipitation: none

The following birds were seen by Wayne Weber between about 4:00 and
5:30 PM from the O'Sullivan Dam at the Potholes Reservoir near Moses
Lake, Grant County, WA. Observation points included 3 pulloffs on
the dam itself, and the WDFW boat launch near the west end of the
dam.

A few birds, including some of the Am. White Pelicans and Common
Terns, may have been some of the same birds counted earlier from
Perch Point.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Western Grebe 40 [1]
American White Pelican 12 [2]
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 [3]
Ruddy Duck 150 [4]
Sandhill Crane 15 [5]
Killdeer 1
Bonaparte's Gull 4 [6]
Ring-billed Gull 20
California Gull 1
Herring Gull 1 [7]
Caspian Tern 1
Common Tern 5 [8]
Mourning Dove 1
Northern Flicker 1
Black-billed Magpie 5
European Starling 1
Song Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 6
Red-winged Blackbird 4
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 3

Footnotes:

[1] Western Grebe-- could include some Clark's Grebes, but all
grebes close enough to identify were Western.
[2] Am. White Pelican-- 9 roosting on rocks, 3 more feeding in lake
[3] B-C. Night-Heron-- immature, at boat launch
[4] Ruddy Ducks-- 2 large flocks, at least a mile out in the lake
(good visibility!)
[5] Sandhill Crane-- flock of 15 briefly circling during southbound
flight near E end of dam.
[6] Bonaparte's Gull-- 3 ad. and 1 imm., roosting on shore with
other gulls at boat launch
[7] Herring Gull-- adult at boat launch
[8] Common Terns-- roosting on rocks with pelicans and Caspian
Tern, and later feeding over the lake

Total number of species seen: 24