Date: 6/29/26 5:23 pm From: Bob Flores via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] avocets
Stef,
Use these coordinates on your gps. 46.82547° N, 119.38198° W
Bob Flores
On Jun 29, 2026, at 17:04, Stef Neis via Tweeters <tweeters...> wrote:
We would like to go to the County Line Ponds by Othello soon but cannot find them specifically on Google Maps. Could someone please give use directions or a more specific location?
Thanks much,
Stef Neis
Whidbey Island
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On Jun 27, 2026, at 10:24 PM, Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters <tweeters...> wrote:
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 !
On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 1:57 PM Jeff Borsecnik via Tweeters <tweeters...><mailto:<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.)
