Hello again.
Since the Walla Walla River Delta hasn't had mud because of high water - we
have been visiting the Millet Field on Northshore Drive east of Madam Dorion
Park at Wallula Junction for shorebirds. Nothing unusual but a nice
assortment of birds - today's numbers listed then Friday's numbers in ( ):
Semipalmated Plover (2)
Killdeer - 132 (62)
Spotted Sandpiper - 8 (9)
Solitary Sandpiper - 11 (8)
Greater Yellowlegs - 11 (21)
Lesser Yellowlegs - 35 (53)
Western Sandpiper - 63 (36)
Least Sandpiper - 22 (17)
Baird's Sandpiper (4)
Pectoral Sandpiper (1)
Long-billed Dowitcher - 4 (19)
Wilson's Snipe - 1 (3)
Wilson's Phalarope - 2 (3)
Red-necked Phalarope - 16 (22)

Eurasian Collared-Dove - 2
Eastern and Western Kingbirds
Lazuli Buntings
Lark Sparrow - 1 bird

There was a pair of American Kestrels constantly harassing the shorebirds -
unusual behavior for them.

Dodd Road "blood pond" today yielded:
Semipalmated Plover - 3
Baird's Sandpiper - 14
a few Western, Least and dozen Killdeer.

WW river delta today:
Sora - one bird
LB Dowitcher - 5
many RB and CA Gulls, Caspian Terns and 18 Pelicans. Badger Island had 400+
Am. White Pelicans. Gulls are already gathering on the poop piles.

Later, M & M

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Mike and MerryLynn Denny
Birding the beautiful Walla Walla Valley

If you have not birded, you have not lived