On Friday John Bishop, the Washington State University Associate
Professor with the Mount St. Helens Institute was doing a vegetation
survey on the pumice plains at 4,000' on the north side of Mt. Saint
Helens when they encountered and photographed a juvenile jaeger which has
been tentatively identified as a PARASITIC JAEGER a first record for
Skamania County. If anyone would like view the photo and chime in with
their opinion I would be happy to forward it to them.
Today, Monday 8/25, my wife, Susan and I birded up the Gorge in
Skamania County heading up to Old Man Pass to try and find another county
first, a Vesper Sparrow found and photographed by Michael Hobbs and Matt
Barton. We stopped at Stevenson to scan the mud flats at Rock Creek Cove
for shorebirds when an adult PARASITIC JAEGER flew over us and then
headed down the Columbia River. When we lost sight of the bird we jumped
in to the vehicle and hurried downstream and caught up with the bird
about a mile west of Stevenson over Ashes Lake. It continued west and we
drove around the point hoping to intercept it at Bonneville Dam we did
not re-spot the bird so headed back to the east with a stop at Ashes Lake
where after climbing the railroad berm I found two juvenile COMMON LOONS
in the Columbia River. No luck in finding the Vesper Sparrow in the area
of Old Man Pass which was very quiet with only GRAY JAY, STELLER'S JAY,
COMMON RAVEN and CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADDES there.

Wilson Cady
Washougal, WA
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