I had an excellent morning birding today (10/25) mainly in Franklin and
Columbia Counties. I birded Windust Park and Palouse Falls SP before
hooking up with the Denny's to bird Lyons Ferry together and a bit of
northern Columbia County.



Nothing much to speak of at Windust or Palouse Falls, but afterwards
things were very good. The highlight was finding a Columbia County
first, four SURF SCOTERS viewed from the bridge at Lyons Ferry. Mike
and MerryLynn quickly doubled back to see them too! Later when I came
by a second time, the birds were far over on the Whitman side, an extra
bonus!



Also...



Lyons Ferry - a couple EVENING GROSBEAKS, 16 high flyover WESTERN
BLUEBIRDS, a scraggly adult BALD EAGLE, a flyby BONAPARTE'S GULL, a
female CANVASBACK, a lone DUNLIN on the beach dodging geese, and 3
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE with the Canadas. A lot of good Franklin
County birds.



Little Goose Dam - 12 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 1 HERRING GULL, 2 late SAY'S PHOEBES



It was great getting to bird with Mike and MerryLynn; afterwards they
headed off to explore some more areas and hopefully found some more
birds.



Michael Woodruff

College Place, WA


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