Subject: [Tweeters] Cow Lake Wednesday
Date: Aug 2 20:17:38 2014
From: Randy Hill - re_hill at q.com
Sorry for a very late post on birding eastern Adams County on Wednesday. As
I should have expected, sage-steppe was dormant for activity except for a
few Loggerhead Shrikes west and north of Lind. The one area of interest was
near water at Cow Lake where I had 12 species of shorebirds with minimum
numbers as follows:
Black-necked Stilt 8
American Avocet 2
Killdeer 25
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 12
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Least Sandpiper 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Western Sandpiper 12
Long-billed Dowitcher 20
Wilson's Snipe 2
Wilson's Phalarope 3
Red-necked Phalarope 2
Sprague Lake was loaded with waterfowl at long distance. Early afternoon at
Washtucna hit 104 degrees. Needless to say, heat waves were a factor at
distance most of the day.
Randy Hill
Ridgefield