Subject: [Tweeters] Yakima Delta 8/14/2006
Date: Aug 14 12:56:25 2006
From: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise - billnanl at verizon.net


Well, finally there is mud!!

Shorebirds today:

Killdeer 100 plus
Semipalmated Plover 2
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Western Sandpiper approx 50
Least Sandpiper 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Spotted Sandpiper 10
Red-necked Phalarope 16

If the mud remains, there should be even more tomorrow.

Great Egrets, Black-crowned Night-Herons, Great Blue Herons, gulls & terns,
swallows, and other expected species were also around. Also found a Gray
Catbird mewing in the shrubbery.

It was the first time in a while that we have seen Green-winged Teal,
Northern Shoveler, and Northern Pintail among the Mallards.

Bill and Nancy LaFramboise
Richland WA