Subject: [Tweeters] another Eurasian Collared Dove
Date: Jun 14 20:14:10 2005
From: Hill - hill at smwireless.net


This morning at 05:30 I heard a Eurasian Collared Dove along the Crab Creek Trail at Columbia NWR. Unlike the two a couple of weeks ago this was in Grant County. Bob Flores went looking for it later in the morning and wasn't able to find it. The Crab Creek Trail starts from a parking lot immediately south of Marsh Unit 1 and the graveled portion loops back. The trail also extends (somewhat discreetly) south and eventually ties in near the start of the Frog Lake and Marsh Trails. The dove was calling from an area about 100 yards beyond (south of) the graveled portion and at the west edge of the floodplain. I never saw the bird and needed to continue my count so didn't spend extra time looking, but the call was a match with the Washtucna dove.

Randy Hill
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