Subject: [Tweeters] Banks Lake, Grant Cnty, WA
Date: Aug 27 18:04:18 2011
From: Doug Schonewald - dschone8 at donobi.net


Banks Lake is rapidly falling. The draw down is due to necessary maintenance
on the spillways.

earlier this week there were a plethora of shorebirds at the marina at
Coulee City, mostly Westerns, Least, and a few Bairds. There is so much
lakeshore exposed that it is hard to decide where to look for shorebirds,
especially since the water has not been drawn down to this level in nearly
20-years. It should only get better in the next few weeks.

Steamboat Rock had a few migrants. MacGillivrays, Wilson, Chipping Sparrows,
the like. Nothing rare, but enough to keep up interest.

Northrup Point was pretty dead as was Sun Lakes State Park, but the heat
might have had something to do with that (nearly 100).

Cheers

Doug Schonewald
Moses Lake, WA