Jeff,
The County Line Ponds are a well known hot spot for birders. I always make
a point of stopping there when birding in Eastern Washington. They are a
good spot for avocets, stilts, Wilson’s Phalarope, other shorebirds and
ducks and thousands of Cackling geese and hundreds of Sandhill Cranes!
Congrats on your lifers !
Good Birding !
Hans
*Hans Feddern*
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA
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On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 1:57 PM Jeff Borsecnik via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> wrote:
> 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.)
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