Subject: [Tweeters] Saturday 9/7 WOS Migrant Mania Field Trip Report
Date: Sep 10 17:50:43 2013
From: Kevin Black - Kevin.Black at wallawalla.edu
Saturday nine of us, including myself started out around 6:30AM at Washtucna. Six of us camped the night before. The night before, most heard a Barn Owl, and I heard a Great Horned Owl just before sunrise as I was making my coffee. After spending the morning birding in Washtucna, we went on to Lyon's Ferry and Palouse Falls. We arrived at Hatton STP around 3PM. Most of us got done birding at Scooteney around 5PM. Here are our highlights:
Washtucna:
Cooper?s Hawk-1
PACIFIC WREN-one heard
Golden-Crowned Kinglet-10
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet -5
Red-Breasted Nuthatch-one heard
Wilson?s Warbler-10
Orange-Crowned Warbler-one
Yellow Warbler-5
Western Wood Pe-Wee-2
Hammond?s/Dusky Type Flycatcher-handful, also other flycatchers that were unidentified
One possible Gray Flycatcher (that I didn?t see)
Pacific-Sloped Flycatcher-one
Horned Lark-heard
Wild Turkeys-seemed there were at least 15 with young
Warbling Vireo-10
Cassin?s Vireo-1
Eastern Kingbird-heard
Washtucna STP
Vesper Sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper-1
Western Sandpiper-1
Black-Necked Stilts-6
HWY 261 Franklin County
Lark Sparrow
Lincoln?s Sparrow
Lyon?s Ferry
GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW-1
Black-Crowned Night Heron-juvenile First time I have seen one here
Lazuli Bunting
Western Tanager
Wilson?s Warbler-5
Orange-Crowned Warbler-4
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Willow Flycatcher
Cassin?s Vireo-1
Palouse Falls
GRAY FLYCATCHER-1
Dusky Flycatcher
Hatton STP
Lesser Yellowlegs-2
Western Sandpiper-10
Baird's Sandpiper-2
Least Sandpiper-5
Scooteney Resevoir
COMMON TERNS-SEVEN
Lesser Yellowlegs-15
Greater Yellowlegs-4
Long-Billed Dowitcher-4
Western Sandpiper-15
Least Sandpiper-5
All had a good time and many of us had good discussions on shorebird and flycatcher identification. We had great weather and everyone seemed to enjoy each others' company.
Good Birding,
Kevin Black
kevin.black at wallawalla.edu<mailto:kevin.black at wallawalla.edu>
Richland, WA