I often save trip reports of interest within an hour drive, and decided to combine a Tulip Festival visit with a look at the Woodland Bottoms after Russ, Tom and others pointed out shorebirds seen last week .? Still a few around.? The first flooded field? heading south on Dike Access Road still had 5 breeding-plumaged Black-bellied Plovers , a Least Sandpiper , and about 6 0 Dunlin ,?and 15+ Bonaparte's Gulls. ? The next large flooded area had at least 70 Caspian Terns plus 4 other gull species.? At the RV park access there were 2 female-plumaged Red-breasted Mergansers along the shoreline.? Two more were on the Clark County side of the Lewis River, where a breeding-plumaged Common Loon was in the river.? A Caspian Tern was foraging over the Columbia River on the Clark County side.? Around the bend and up Kuhnis Road toward town the wetlands to the west included 16 Least Sandpipers , 2 Greater Yellowlegs , and a Peregrine Falcon making them duck down.



Yesterday there was a push of migrants through the the area.? New yard birds included Savannah, White-crowned and?Lincoln's Sparrows, and the park a few houses down the street ?had a White-breasted Nuthatch (my first at that location).? This morning there?were Chipping Sparrows and a Nashville Warbler in the maple trees that are just ?starting to leaf out. ?



Randy Hill

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