Subject: [Tweeters] A Dozen IBIS Walla Walla County
Date: May 15 17:01:48 2015
From: Dennis Paulson - dennispaulson at comcast.net


This sounds much like the early 80s, when everything dried up in southeastern Oregon, and Great Egrets and Black-necked Stilts came up to Washington in numbers and soon became breeding species. With the same drought again, if not worse, I wonder if this could happen with White-faced Ibis and Franklin?s Gulls. Unfortunately, we don?t have quite the extensive marshes of Oregon, but it will be interesting to see how this ibis/gull invasion plays out.

Dennis Paulson
Seattle


On May 15, 2015, at 12:00 PM, tweeters-request at mailman1.u.washington.edu wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 13:27:36 -0700
> From: "Mike & MerryLynn" <m.denny at charter.net>
> Subject: [Tweeters] A Dozen IBIS Walla Walla County
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> Hello all,
> Spent a calm nice morning at the Walla Walla River delta and the millet pond to the east. At the pond just east of the junction of SR730 were 12 WHITE-FACED IBIS along with 17 FRANKLIN'S GULLS.
> On the delta: 1 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 1 MARBLED GODWIT, 13 FRANKLIN'S GULLS, 6 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, Avocets, Stilts, LB Dowitchers 5 Great Egrets, and 5 Forster's Terns.
>
> The millet pond: 7 WILSON'S PHALAROPE, 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER, Blue-winged and Cinnamon Teal, and out-of-place HAIRY WOODPECKER, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, TOWNSEND'S and WILSON'S WARBLERS.
>
> Our yard is still full of Evening Grosbeaks -
> Good birding, M&ML