Subject: [Tweeters] Walla Walla River delta birding
Date: Sep 3 20:21:13 2007
From: mike denny - m.denny at charter.net
Hello All,
Get ye to the delta! Today while birding this amazing site we saw the
following species of interest.....
Glaucous-winged Gull-2 ad.
Common Tern-25+
Forsters Tern-15
Caspian Tern-7
STILT SANDPIPER-6 birds this AM and this evening as flock after flock
arrived we counted 95+ birds! this is the largest number of Stilt Sandpipers
we have ever encountered in Washington State.
MARBLED GODWIT-1bird-rare but regular annually.
Long-billed Dowitcher-2
Semipalmated Plover-1
Killdeer-8
Western Sandpiper -200+
Least Sandpiper-2
Bairds Sandpiper-4
Wilsons Snipe-1
Red-necked Phalarope-4
Virginia Rail-4
Sora-4
Osprey-2
BROWN PELICAN-1 sub-adult-first county record
Great Egrets-2 birds
Belted Kingfisher-1
MacGillivrays Warbler-1 male
Casey Pond
Greater White-fronted Geese-311 birds
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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
1354 S. E. Central Ave.
College Place, WA 99324
509.529.0080 (h)
IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN BIRDING, YOU HAVEN'T LIVED!
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