I checked the private lands project this morning that the City of Washtucna is working on at Bassett Park. Alan Richards and Ruth and Patrick Sullivan arrived yesterday and had some good birds this morning. Since the Sullivans won't be reporting until after the weekend I'll reveal a few of the good birds there today. Before I arrived around 09:30 they had a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and a WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER (photos) plus several of the birds that I eventually saw, including a LEWIS'S WOODPECKER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, GRAY FLYCATCHER (and 4 other flycatchers). Of course the turkeys and collared-doves are still there. Yesterday on the Columbia River near Vantage they had COMMON TERNS, 2 SABINE'S GULLS, and a PARASITIC JAEGER. The weekend is still ahead.

At Corfu this afternoon there was a migrant flock of at least 4 SAGE THRASHERS. It was a little breezy, and I did not see the mockingbird there.

As far as I know there has not been a pectoral sandpiper seen in Adams County this year, a code 2 bird. Somebody find one or report to me where and when you found one.

Randy Hill
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