Tried to find the Western Kingbird today (Tuesday) but couldn't. However,
added Blackheaded Grosbeak and Western Wood-Peewee to my Willow Grove Loop
list. Saw both of them at the end of the loop. Also saw a Common Loon from
Willow Grove Park - had not seen any for quite a while.

Also had no luck in finding the Red-necked Phalarope at the Mint Farm
Mitigation Ponds. Also no White-fronted Geese. However, did see Spotted
Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper and Yellow-headed Blackbirds.

Jeff Jendro
Longview, WA
_jeffjendro at aol.com_ (mailto:jeffjendro at aol.com)

Subject: Longview Red-necked Phalaropes
From: "washingtonbirder.Knittle" <washingtonbirder AT hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:00:49 -0700
Sunday evening I talked to Russ Koppendrayer from Cowlitz Co. who had just

found the 1'st records of Red-necked Phalarope in Cowlitz Co. at the Mint
Farm

Mitigation Ponds along with Allen Richards. Today, Monday, Anne Kahle and I

went there and found 8 of them along with 2 White-fronted Geese, 4 Cackling

Geese, 2 Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Greater Yellowlegs, Spotted and Least

Sandpipers. This is a jewel of a place for possible good birds that Russ just

discovered recently.





Directions:



Take Hwy 4 and drive west to 38th Ave.



Turn left on 38th Ave. and go to Hwy 432



Turn left (east) on Hwy 432.



Watch for The Mint Farm sign at the next stop light and turn left (north)
here.



Turn right onto Crocker Ave. and go to the end. During the week workers with

heavy machinery are working here so we drove back a ways and parked in the

sub-station area so we wouldn't block traffic.





Walk out across the grassy fields which is quite a ways over to the ponds. On

the way we ran into wet areas which had Least Sandpipers, Canada Geese with 2

White-fronted Geese and Greater Yellowlegs. You know you are getting close to

the ponds when you see white upright pipes used as a sprinkler system in
years

past.





The Spotted Sandpipers and Red-necked Phalarope were in the two deepest
ponds.

The yellow-headed Blackbirds were in the back ponds.





We also stopped at Willow Grove Park further west on Hwy 432 and had a
Western

Kingbird on the western end of the park.





Garfield Co. is now the only county without a record of Red-necked Phalrope.

Late summer might be the time for that county around Central Ferry.





Ken KnittleVancouver WA 98665 mailto:washingtonbirder AT hotmail.com
Washington

Birder online http://www.wabirder.com/

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