Subject: [Tweeters] Othello and back
Date: Mar 27 03:38:00 2011
From: Tim Brennan - tsbrennan at hotmail.com



Hey Tweets,

Made a run over to Othello today. I left early, and caught sunrise on the Old Vantage Highway - stopping at the Gingko Visitor Center where I had a shrike which I should have looked at more carefully! Been staring at a poor picture trying to turn it into a Loggerhead, but I'm not sure that I can do it! Had my FOY Meadowlark here, as well as my SOY and TOY (had my NBOY by the end of the day).

Lower Crab Creek Road was a nice way to go - lots of easy places to pull over to investigate flittering in the trees. This included some Townsend's Solitaires. Near the end of the road - before the Adams County line, I saw my first (and last) Sandhill Cranes of the day - hundreds of them rising up in the valley below - a bit far off to see well, but close enough to hear their racket quite well.

Looked unsuccessfully for Burrowing Owls in the Othello area, and made my way home on the north side of I90, where I found a dozen Long-Billed Curlews south of HWY 28 East of Quincy. Had planned on the trip up through Quincy, so I didn't have time to cut back through the right parts of the Othello area to see the cranes any better than I had earlier, but they are there!

-Tim Brennan
Renton
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