Hello all,
The Blue Creek fire is contained and thankfully Biscuit Ridge is still intact - still very dry and dusty up there.
The river level was low enough for mudflats this morning so I checked the Walla Walla River delta, 2Rivers and Penninsula HMU's - lots of shorebirds. A SEMIPALMATED PLOVER was county yearbird #237. Many Killdeer, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Black-necked Stilts, Long-billed Dowitchers, Least, Western and one Solitary Sandpiper. Several Wilson's Snipe were in the cobble at "Ruff Spit" at 2Rivers. On an exposed rock were 5 FORSTER'S TERNS - the best place in the county to see these birds.

Over 30 Great Egrets out there today - nesting was successful. There were 150 Western Grebes out in the milfoil - must be full of fish.

Badger Island was white with Pelicans - they had a successful nesting season as well.

Good birding, MerryLynn



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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
Birding the beautiful Walla Walla Valley

"If you haven't birded, you haven't lived"