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The Curlew Page 1 of 9 the curlew Page 1 of 9 September 2010 Volume XLVI Number 1 the curlew Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society Special Interest A Chapter of the National Audubon Society Articles: • Don’t Forget: Habitat Restoration on the Hanford Reach Membership meeting and National Monument and some of the results Program of those projects for September 28! Membership LCBAS members and on- the- ground - the public are conservation of shrub- • Summer Bird Meeting welcome. Our first Sightings pages steppe habitat. Heidi Tuesday, September speaker is Heidi 4 & 5 28, 2010, 7:00 p.m. has a MS in Wildlife Newsome, biologist Kennewick First Science and has been in • SEED SALE with the U.S. Fish and the Columbia Basin order forms! Fill Lutheran Church, Wildlife Service who yours out today! corner of Yelm and since 1999. will present her talk, Our speaker usually Highway 395 Habitat Restoration on Please join us on begins around 7:45 p.m. the Hanford Reach Please bring a treat to Tuesday evening for the National Monument. kick off of the programs share and to help make Heidi will discuss this first meeting a fun Individual for the 2009-2010 recent post-wildfire time to visit with friends Highlights: Audubon year! All rehabilitation projects and enjoy a tasty snack! Seed Sale 3 Bateman Island Bird Walk with Lisa Hill Sightings 4 & 5 causeway. Thanks to Phil PINTAIL, GREEN‐WINGED Oil Spill 8 The Bateman Island Bird Walk season got off to a Bartley for spotting this TEAL and PIED‐BILLED Conservation 6 fantastic start on relatively rare species for GREBE. Other warblers September 4 with a great the Tri‐Cities. There was a were ORANGE‐CROWNED list of 60 species. Many beautiful mink glistening in WARBLER, YELLOW migrants were moving the sun on the rocks WARBLER and NASHVILLE through the area while a beneath those same trees. WARBLER. good number of the Quite a few of our winter Two GREAT HORNED OWLS summer breeding birds residents have returned and a RED‐BREASTED still remained which from their breeding grounds NUTHATCH were in the accounted for the long including WHITE‐CROWNED locust grove. With the help list. Before we set foot on SPARROW, YELLOW‐ of a spotting scope to scan the island, an ASH‐ RUMPED WARBLER, the delta, the shorebird list THROATED FLYCATCHER GADWALL, AMERICAN really added up – WESTERN was found in the Russian WIGEON, NORTHERN SANDPIPER, SPOTTED olive trees just before the the curlew Page 2 of 9 Bateman Island Walk Continued Help for Injured SANDPIPER, LEAST HERON, OSPREY, and Raptors: SANDPIPER, SEMI‐ BELTED KINGFISHER all If you find an injured raptor in the PALMATED PLOVER, made an appearance over Tri-Cities or surrounding area you can call a local volunteer for KILLDEER, GREATER the water. advice. Injured raptors are usually YELLOWLEGS, BLACK‐ transported to Blue Mountain NECKED STILT, and LONG‐ Autumn is beautiful in the Wildlife in Pendleton, Oregon Tri‐cities so don’t miss the for treatment and rehabilitation. BILLED DOWITCHER. Who to call: next Bateman walk on Michelle Caron..(509) 366-0888 A RED‐NECKED PHALAROPE Saturday, October 2. We Ash-throated flycatcher by L.Umthun Marilyn Hayes..(509) 521-4648 Suzanne Baird…(509) 460-2434 swirled around in a typical meet in the parking lot of Blue Mountain Wildlife…(541) “Many migrants were moving circular pattern in the Wye Park at 8AM. 278-0215 see Lower Columbia through the area while a shallow water near the Binoculars are Basin Audubon website and good number of the summer shorebirds. CASPIAN TERN, recommended. Birders of click on the Help for Injured breeding birds still Birds link. BLACK‐CROWNED NIGHT all skill levels are welcome! remained..” Beaches, Wildflowers and Red Dirt: travels in Central and South-Western Australia. roads as we search for wildlife, Wednesday, September 22 at Aboriginal art, southern 7 pm beaches and some odd little Kennewick Library towns. 1620 S Union St. Join Kathy Criddle as she shares adventures and travel Australia is one big place and a tips from a journey taken in beautiful travel destination. Australia with some intrepid Explore around Alice Springs, members of the Lower Perth and Kangaroo Island . In Columbia Basin Audubon between, travel some very long Society 10th Anniversary of the Hanford Reach National Monument! When: Saturday October 9, 9am What: A Public Celebration of the 10 th anniversary of the Hanford Reach National Monument! Begin at the Vernita Bridge, Mattawa, WA. Self-guided tours begin at the rest stop at the Vernita Bridge on Hwy 240 (towards Vantage). Stop for information and tour maps. The self tour includes 5 stops with a geology talk, the Wanapum traveling museum, Saddle Mtn access road tips, a gorgeous view of White Bluffs & more. For more information contact Friends of Mid-Columbia River Wildlife Refuges 546-8350 or USFWS 546- 8300. The McNary Education Center will also be open for those who wish to view the taxidermy or walk the trails to observe the fall migration.The Education Center is located off Highway 12 near Burbank. From Tri-Cities take Highway I-182 East/Highway 12 East to Burbank. Turn left onto Humorist Rd. at second stoplight after the Snake River Bridge. Turn left onto Lake Rd. Look for Education Center on the left. For Those Who Feed Our Feathered Friends – Very Important Date – October 16! Ninth Annual Bird Seed Sale and Information Day If you have any special requests Want good prices on the things Education Fund for taxidermy. you use to feed birds? Have Help us beat last year’s record. for bird feeding supplies, note this on the order form. questions about what or how to feed our feathered friends? ¾ LCBAS members will be Challenge Karen to get what you want. She will make every effort Once again, in connection with present to answer Columbia Grain & Feed, we questions to find it and to have a great price. will be hosting our Ninth ¾ Best prices possible for Annual Bird Seed Sale and bird feeding supplies and Columbia Grain and Feed has Information Day. Please tell answers to your bird your friends and mark your questions been so generous for the past 8 years. Please support their calendars for October 16. ¾ Saturday, October 16, 9 Place an order on the enclosed am until 2 pm generosity. Our taxidermy order form before October 5 ¾ Columbia Grain & Feed, collection has grown due to their and then pick it up on October 2001 West Lewis, (corner commitment to our education 16. If you can’t make it on the of 20th and Lewis), Pasco program. The most recent pieces 16th, that’s fine, just don’t wait ¾ It’s fun, informative, and include a Greater Sage-Grouse, too long. Preordering insures a win-win for all. Cliff Swallow, Sage Thrasher, you get the items you want at Taxidermy will be on and Hermit Thrush. the best possible prices. Based display. See order form in this issue for on your purchase amount, ¾ Questions? Call Nancy at current pricing information. Columbia Grain & Feed will 627-3695. make a donation to the LCBAS Do you know that anytime of the year when Audubon Adventures you make a purchase of bird feeding supplies Columbia Grain & Feed will make a Last year LCBAS purchased Audubon Adventures helps donation? 12 classroom kits of 3rd through 5th graders Just tell the clerk you want your purchase to Audubon Adventures. The form positive attitudes about support LCBAS. cost of each kit is $45. This nature and supports year we have a goal of teachers with instructional finding 15 classrooms to content aligned with national benefit from this nationally standards for Social Studies acclaimed program. (with an emphasis on LCBAS members who would Civics), Science and like to make a contribution to Language Arts. Volunteering to help with this worthwhile program can mail a check to LCBAS and Heritage Days indicate that your donation is Audubon Adventures is a for Audubon Adventures. great way to begin to For the past three years LCBAS members have Send to: Lower Columbia connect kids with nature! volunteered to help with Heritage Days at Sacajawea Basin Audubon Society, PO Please support our Park. This year Heritage Days is September 24, 25, and Box 1900, Richland, WA educational effort! 26th. Blue Mountain Wildlife and LCBAS will share a 99352, Attention: Katie space again. Volunteers are needed to Harris - Treasurer. recruit new members and explain our mission. Interested folks call Marilyn Hayes at 521 4648 or email her at [email protected]. the curlew Page 4 of 9 Bird Sightings – August 2010 Angela Harding - ([email protected]) Hello fellow birders! Herons. “ I hope you have all had a great I hope you th have all had a summer full of birding and other 6. August 17 , 2010. Nancy L. Bateman great summer wonderful adventures. Its fall migrant Island. season and I can’t wait to read about 1 Wilson’s Warbler. 1 Black-headed Grosbeak, full of birding at least 10 Yellow Warblers, Eastern Kingbirds, and other what you find. Here is a list of the great Gray Catbirds, Bewick’s Wrens, and BC wonderful birds some of you have reported for Chickadees. Western Grebe. The Yakima adventures. Its August. Delta.:20 Killdeer, Least, Western, and fall migrant Semipalmated Sandpipers (about 20 total), 3 th season and I 1. August 5 , 2010. Craig from Benton City. Baird’s Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated Plover, can’t wait to Believes he saw a lesser goldfinch at Lewis and 2 Spotted Sandpipers. A fairly high count and Clark State Park by Dayton. read about of 20 Red-necked Phalaropes.
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