Subject: [Tweeters] Crepuscular birding west of LOMO
Date: May 4 08:31:23 2008
From: mike denny - m.denny at charter.net


Hello All,

Yesterday evening MerryLynn and I drove up north along the Snake River to an
area known as Walker Pit Rd.. On our way north we discovered an adult Great
Egret perched near a flooded depresion out in a wheat field at Eureka which
sits in the great monocultural desert of wheat. Up on the Snake River we saw
two Am. White Pelicans, an Osprey, Golden Crowned Kinglet and a Gray
Partridge. After sun down we drove out under a great basalt rim west of
Lower Monumental Dam (LOMO) and listened for birds. We heard the following
species after dark.....
Red-tailed Hawk
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Common Raven
Great Horned Owl
Coyote

That is it. Later Mike

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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
1354 S. E. Central Ave.
College Place, WA 99324
509.529.0080 (h)

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