Subject: [Tweeters] White-winged Scoters/WWCounty
Date: Oct 21 20:31:22 2007
From: mike denny - m.denny at charter.net
Hello all,
After a few hours of searching the rivers we finally came across two
White-winged Scoters up above Ice Harbor Dam in Walla Walla County. In the
same area were 75+ Western Grebes, 85 Bufflehead and the usual coots and
mallards.
Below the dam were:
Common Mergansers - 9
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 at the base of the overflow gates - funny place
Dunlin - 1
Wilson's Snipe - 6
Bonaparte's Gulls - 10 (had another 11 flying down the Snake by Burbank)
Many cormorants, RB and CA gulls with a few herring.
Hood Park:
Northern Goshawk - 1 adult female with half-eaten bird of some kind.
Winter Wren - 2 - 1 bird seemingly locked in the picnic area restroom!
Wood Ducks - 40+
A few each YR warblers, WC sparrows and RC Kinglets.
Yellow-shafted Flicker - 1 (have had 3 in the county this fall)
Walla Walla River delta:
Bald Eagle - 1 adult - another by Casey pond
Bonaparte's Gulls - 2 (also had 1 flyover at the "blood pond" on Dodd road)
Black-bellied Plover - 1
Dunlin - 2
Western Sandpiper - 4
Least Sandpiper - 2
Lots of gulls and ducks.
Northshore pond:
Bufflehead - 250 - large number for area
Canada Geese - a few small flocks around McNary NWR
Greater Scaup - 1 pair at the port grain facility
Later, MerryLynn
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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
1354 S. E. Central Ave.
College Place, WA 99324
509.529.0080 (h)
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