Subject: [Tweeters] IMBD field trip today
Date: May 10 20:51:05 2008
From: Hill - hill at smwireless.net


I led a group to and around Columbia NWR today to celebrate International Migratory Bird Day. Including a few species that turned up in my back yard we saw or heard 98 species. Most interesting was the SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER near Potholes Canal just south of the Grant County line. Broods of CANADA GOOSE, MALLARD, KILLDEER & WILSON'S SNIPE and a young HORNED LARK . The calling YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was a little early.

Yesterday I headed east to Washtucna, Hooper, and Sprague Lake. It was a very slow passerine day but I managed to add seven species for the year in Adams County. Most interesting bird of the day was a GREAT EGRET at the Sprague sewage lagoons.

Randy Hill
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