Date: 6/27/26 2:07 pm From: Jeff Borsecnik via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] avocets
I don't imagine it's unusual, but we saw a good bunch of American avocets (and chicks) and a few Wilson's ? phalaropes —both lifers for us—and black-necked stilts near the Columbia NWR, at some random little ponds ("county line ponds") along HWY 26 just west of Othello this past weekend. Very cool birds! Bunches of pelicans over the refuge. ... For the record, Othello has an oddly great coffee shop/coffee for a small farm town. I guess they get enough tourists to make it go.
(We were over there to go rafting in Hell's Canyon, which was great.)
