Subject: [Tweeters] Basin birding
Date: Sep 21 17:18:19 2014
From: Tim Brennan - tsbrennan at hotmail.com


Hey tweets!

I hit mostly Grant and Douglas counties this weekend looking for shorebirds and other migrants. Grant didn't have anything too unusual, but a Steller's Jay at Oasis park in Ephrata was a surprise. Most of my time was spent in Douglas with the following highlights:

Jolly's Pond - Baird's Sandpiper 3

Jameson Lake - Wilson's warbler, townsends warbler, hermit thrush, ruby-crowned and golden-crowned Kinglets, Osprey.

Waterville STP - Pectoral and Baird's Sandpiper.

Douglas Creek- yellow-breasted Chat, Nashville Warbler, Virginia Rail, Townsend's Solitaire, Bewick's Wren, red-naped Sapsucker. The campsite, incidentally, was one of the most idyllic I've visited. Stars, crickets and falling apples. There was enough fallen apple wood to make a little fire.

Pipits, yellow rumps and white crowned sparrows everywhere, and honey crisps for 1 dollar a pound. Great trip!

Tim--Sent from my iPhone