Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: August 28, 2006
Phone: 509-627-BIRD
Compiler and Transcriber: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, billnanl at verizon.net

BIRDS REPORTED

Expected migrant warblers, American Redstart, Black-throated Gray Warbler
Warbling Vireo, Western Tanager, Lincoln's Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow,
Red-breasted Nuthatch (not where typically seen), Lewis' Woodpecker,
Olive-sided Flycatcher, and a few Empidonax flycatchers
Solitary Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope

TRANSCRIPT

This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for August 28,
2006. For questions regarding LCBAS, please leave a message.

To skip the announcement, push the star button on your phone and give your
name, phone number, date, and sightings after the tone. As the date and
time functions are not currently working, please be sure to leave the date
of your sighting.

It has been a month since the last update but that's because there have been
very few calls to the Alert despite notable birds being out there. Lack of
use threatens to end this service. If you use the Internet, check out the
new LCBirds email group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/ You must
join to receive emails, post photos, or reply to posts. If you do not use
the Internet, please let us know that you want the Alert Service to continue
by posting sightings.

Since August 11, all expected migrant warblers have been seen on Bateman
Island except the soon to be numerous Yellow-rumped Warblers. Most have
been Yellow Warblers but Townsend's, Wilson's, MacGillivray's,
Orange-crowned, and Nashville Warblers have been noted.

More exciting have been 2 AMERICAN REDSTARTS, both were immature or female
birds. The first was on Bateman Island on August 22 and the other was at WE
Johnson Park on August 26.

Also on Bateman Island, Ray Johnson found a BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER on
August 26. It was present again on the morning of August 27.

Other area migrants so far have included Warbling Vireos, Western Tanagers,
Lincoln's Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrows, Red-breasted Nuthatch in places
where they are not typically seen, Lewis' Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher
and a few Empidonax flycatchers including Gray and Pacific-slope.

Shorebirds are also moving through. On August 27, there were 3 SOLITARY
SANDPIPERS at the far west end of the Yakima Delta and 3 RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES near the middle mud bar.

To report your own sightings, please give your name, phone number, date, and
sightings after the tone. Thank you.

To contact LCBAS, write to PO Box 1900, Richland, WA 99352 or visit the
LCBAS web site at http://lowercolumbiabasinaudubon.org/


Bill and Nancy LaFramboise
Richland WA