> Yesterday Gina Sheridan and I went to Rock Lake/Glorfield Road to try to relocate the Ibis's reported a day earlier by the Weber's and Terry Little. We didn't see them. Nice consolations were 2 BLACK TERNS (unusual at location) and 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Rock Lake, as well as the other shorebirds and rails reported earlier on Glorfield Road. At Steptoe Butte, we observed DUSKY and HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHERS, Yellow-rumped, TOWNSEND's, and Orange-crowned Warblers, and a VEERY and other typical migrants and breeding birds.
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> Today due to a coincidental plan to scout this area, Randy Hill and I returned to Rock Lake. At the Boat Launch were 6 BONAPARTE'S GULLS among the usual assortment of birds. We scanned Glorfield Road for about 30 minutes and as we were pulling out, literally, in flew 4 WHITE-FACED IBISES.
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/isacoff/7190683858/in/photostream
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> Talk about luck. At Crooked Knee Lake we had a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON fly over and on the fence line along SR 23 near Sheep Lake, we found a migrant LEWIS'S WOODPECKER.
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/isacoff/7190683274/in/photostream/
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> Lots of other nice birds around, including Blue-winged Teal, Canvasbacks, Gray Partridge, and the other usual Shrub-steppe species.
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> Good birding,
> Jon Isacoff, Spokane

Jonathan B. Isacoff
Chair, Environmental Studies
Associate Professor, Political Science
Gonzaga University, Box 52
Spokane, WA 99258-0052
isacoff at gonzaga.edu