Northshore Millet Ponds

MerryLynn, Linda and I went out to the millet ponds this morning to see what might be there.  There is a lot of water, but it is starting to recede, and it will dry up in a month or so.  I highly recommend you take a trip out there – it's a wonderful opportunity to see some very nice birds.  To get there, drive east on Northshore Road off of Highway 12 just past Madame Dorian Park at Wallula Junction.  Stay on the road for about two miles.  You will pass the kiosk pond and go through some sage brush before you come to the ponds.  You can see them from the road, but the best thing to do is follow the road past the ponds and turn right on an unmarked road that takes you to a small parking lot.  Park and walk along the road to the west until you reach the water.  You get much better views of the ponds from this vantage, but it's still nice to have a scope with you.  Some of the birds were saw this morning were American avocets, black-necked stilts, cinnamon and green-winged teals, northern shovelers, great egrets, black-crowned night herons, dunlin, a Wilson's snipe, a Caspian tern, an adult bald eagle,a solitary sandpiper, a spotted sandpiper, a Bullock's oriole and MANY red-winged blackbirds. Ginger