Good Evening All,
MerryLynn and I just returned home from birding out in a beautiful day. We saw a good number of year birds and several rare birds for this county.
The Walla Walla River delta was high water with just a small area of exposed mud. Thousands of carp were spawning. We call them river dolphins as they jump and splash with vigor. Birds observed today are as follows....

Barn Owl-1 ad. in lava tube with 5 chicks.
Bullock's Oriole.....................5 males &1 female, YB
Walla Walla River delta

Am.Avocet....................28 birds
Long-billed Dowitchers-9 birds,YB
Dunlin.............................1 ad.
Am. White Pelican......14 birds in fine breeding horn.
Western Grebe..............217 birds, this is the largest number we have ever seen off this delta. Several pair were up and running.
Clark's Grebe................1 ad.
Caspian Tern.............107 birds
Forsters Tern.................7 birds,YB
Am. Wigeon..................63 birds
Gadwall...........................4 birds
Blue-winged Teal.........3 drakes,YB
Cinnamon Teal..............5 drakes
Green-winged Teal.......5 pair
N.Pintail.........................14 birds
Herring Gull.....................3 birds
Glaucous-winged Gull..2 birds
Common Goldeneye.....20 birds
Ruddy Duck....................16 birds
Greater Scaup.................1 pair
Bufflehead........................1 pair
Bonapartes Gull..............3 ad.
Common Loon................5 birds
Horned Grebe..................2 birds
WHIMBREL.......................1 ad. second county record. photoed, YB
COMMON TEAL...............1 Pair, photoed
Redhead............................1 pair
RED-NECKED GREBE..3 birds, these are rare in Walla Walla Co., YB

Millet Field

Black-necked Stilts........................7 birds
Long-billed Dowitcher....................3 birds
Short-billed Dowitcher....................1 bird, very unusual in spring here.YB
Solitary Sandpiper..........................2 birds,YB
Lesser Yellowlegs...........................5 birds
Semipalmated Plover.....................5 birds,YB
Least Sandpiper.............................18 birds,YB
Killdeer..............................................8 ad., 4 juv.
Black-crowned Night-heron ...........3 birds
Great Egret.......................................5 birds,YB
Western Sandpiper..........................3 birds

Well that is it for now. We are headed out early in the morning to sit and scope the WWR delta once again. Never know what will show up there. Now get outside and go birding!! YB= First of the new year or Year Bird
Later Mike

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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
Birding the beautiful Walla Walla Valley

"If you haven't birded, you haven't lived"