Hello all,
Birded today with Tom Weber from Pullman - had a great day!
Finally had mud on the Walla Walla River delta - very few shorebirds but a
couple great finds among them. One each Marbled Godwit and a Willet which is
very rare in our county. Also had 32 American Avocets and 6 Long-billed
Dowitchers. Lots of Caspian Terns and gulls - very few ducks.
Enjoyed the Long-billed Curlews on Lamdin road just east of the delta - they
are certainly nesting there. The millet pond on northshore drive is dried
up - unless Fish and Wildlife lets more water in there it will be birdless
for the WOS convention. That is where we had ibis and Snowy Egret last year.
Hatch grade had a few Lark Sparrows - and a Prairie Falcon.
The Dodd road stink ponds and Tyson ponds had a few birds:
Wilson's Phalarope - 18
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Baird's Sandpiper - 16
Western Sandpiper - 2
Least Sandpiper - 4
Black-necked Stilt - 8
Long-billed Dowitcher - 4
Yellow-headed Blackbirds - 35+ - they are looking for nesting areas - the
stink ponds habitat is gone and there is no water in the Tyson pond that
they have nested in. This evening there was a female in our yard - new yard
bird!
Blue-winged Teal - finally one pair at Tyson ponds.

Wallula cemetery:
Bullock's Oriole - 4
Western Tanager - 5
Lazuli Bunting - 1 (there were 10 in our yard today)

Lewis Peak - very few birds and too much ice and snow on road to go to top.
There is still 106 inches of snow at Tollgate - we'll see how much melts
before June.

Tom Lamb's Hummingbird Haven out of Dixie - wonderful!! Toooo many hummers
to count.

Also had our FOS MacGillivray's and Wilson's Warblers this morning at
Wal-mart ponds just down from our home.

ML


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

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