Yesterday, Feb.29, Pat and I were out most of the day looking for birds for my leap year list. During our outing, we saw two separate groups of Sandhill...
We drove down to Whitcomb Island yesterday morning to see the snow geese others have reported. We found them, however, they were in the river and during our...
On Saturday we checked out Coyan Rd at the NW end of Franklin Cn where we usually get good views of Sandhills. From the dyke we could see many birds out on...
We found 2 female Mountain Bluebirds flying across Crosby Rd. on the back side of Rattlesnake Mountain on Sunday. A Merlin was discovered at 45205 Knox Rd. ...
A beautiful V of 75 Sandhill Cranes flew over our house in Richland this afternoon. They were flying quite low and, as the crane flies, were headed straight...
There have been killdeer here for a couple weeks now; in the last few days, the kingbirds have been back and are busily building a nest in the horse shed....
Hi again-- O.K., as Dennis pointed out, I didn't say where I saw these birds... For all who might be interested; I'm waaay out in Finley, just west of Hover...
Today, Sunday, 03/09/08, In the morning I walked through the habitat area off of Leslie Rd and Columbia Park Trail didn't see a whole lot of species, nothing...
I thought that many on the LCBAS list would be interested in this from from FOBM; they are encouraging those interested in the preservation of ridgeline, open...
Now that winter is nearly over, we finally saw a WINTER WREN this morning! He was singing merrily (to himself I assume) in the dense brush to the right of the...
This morning I saw what I've identified as a three-toed woodpecker. Having not seen one before, I could be in error. It was slightly smaller than a robin, had...
For a bird this rare in the entire state, one must first rule out the woodpeckers that usually occur here. That would be Downy Woodpecker (and Northern...
Whoops - should have said Three-toed Woodpeckers are not highly migrant. They too are forest birds much like the Black-backed. Bill and Nancy LaFramboise ...
I drove through the Battelle Grounds this morning south of the main buildings on Battelle Boulevard this morning, March 15 ~8:30 AM. There were a pair of...
Noticed the first Great Blue Herons in the heronry on the west side of the island between Horn Rapids Road and the 300 area. They can be seen from the outfall...
Two Canada Geese seen this morning standing atop the eastern raptor platform in the Delta, as viewed from SR 240 causeway. Apparently attempting to breed new...
A brief but productive visit to Chamna today at ~ 16:30 resulted in: Northern Goshawk: 1 female just downstream from the main parking lot / flying south and...
Austin, Please tell how you were able to determine that the Northern Goshawk was a female. Dennis Rockwell Kennewick, WA dennisrockwell@... ... From:...
Nevermind the three-toed woodpecker. How does spotted towhee sound? I was too quick to jump to an identification. After Nancy's input that this woodpecker is...
This morning (at sunrise) I went out to Horn Rapids Park (HRP) and checked for birds in the area, found a pair of Great Horned owls (they been there for quite...
I'm just sitting here at my computer which has a great view of my birdfeeder. A hawk just flew into the feeding area and caused one of the little birds (mostly...
Thanks to Keith Abel's post about the Curlew at Batelle Blvd. & Q streets in Richland we located 5 Curlew and photographed several. Ron & Carole Louderback ...
If you read the Curlew, there was an announcement (copied below) about a new Birding Locations page on the Lower Columbia Basin Audubon web page. IT'S ...
I've just read about LaGrande, OR on the OR important bird area website. Does anyone have experience visiting it - what's it like this time of year, how does...