Hotline: Lower Columbia Basin
Date: January 5, 2006
Phone: 509-627-BIRD
Compiler and Transcriber: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise, billnanl at verizon.net

BIRDS REPORTED

Great Egret
Blue Jay
BARRED OWL
Pacific Loon, Greater White-fronted Goose
Eurasian Wigeon
Thayer's Gull

TRANSCRIPT

This is the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Bird Alert for January 5,
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.

On December 17, Dennis Rockwell located a GREAT EGRET in a canal on the
Pasco side of the Blue Bridge (Hwy 395).

The North Richland BLUE JAY continues but is frustrating to locate. It has
been seen several times in the vicinity of Newcomer and Harris Streets but
where it roams at other times is not known.

The Christmas Bird Count had some excellent birds this year, the best of
which was a BARRED OWL in Two Rivers Park in Kennewick. Dennis Rockwell and
Rod Coler found the bird on December 31 and it seems to be lingering. It
sometimes perches in very dense cover between the Nature Trail and the
river. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FLUSH THE BIRD!!

Other birds worth noting in Two Rivers Park are a PACIFIC LOON and a lone
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE.

A EURASIAN WIGEON has been seen in several locations in Columbia Park in
Kennewick. On December 31, it was in the shallow duck pond not far from the
Edison off-ramp off Highway 240. Yesterday, January 4, it was just east of
the Bateman Island Marina.

The first-year THAYER'S GULL remains on the thin layer of ice just west of
Bateman Island. It was found by Bill LaFramboise and Heidi Newsome during
the count and remained as of January 4.

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

Mark your calendars for our next event. Come see WATCHING SPARROWS at the
Battelle Auditorium on March 4. Watch for news in The Curlew or on our web
site http://lowercolumbiabasinaudubon.org/


Bill and Nancy LaFramboise
Richland WA