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Birding Locations Alpha List Birding locations listed by Nearby Cities Birding in and around the lower Columbia Basin of Washington State is great, especially in migration seasons.  To help you find the places where the best variety of birds can be seen, we have created this webpage to include: Locations lists - alphabetical and by proximity to towns Location names correlate to Bird Sightings published monthly in the Curlew Location descriptions including visitor tips and typical birds seen by season Follow link to see List of Migrants referenced in some location descriptions Individually created Google Map links for each location  Use Google Map features to get driving directions  Click here for Google Map tutorial (and caution for dial-up internet access) Page number references to 'A Birder's Guide to Washington' For immediate information about birds being seen in a specific location, you may also wish to visit LCBirds, a Yahoo group discussion page dedicated to birding in the lower Columbia Basin.  Our local birders will be glad to help you.  We hope you find this webpage useful.  Feedback is welcome by emailing the  LCBAS Webmaster. Please report uncommon bird sightings to LCBIRDS including the following information:  Date, location, species, numbers seen, names of observers.  Thank you!

Alphabetical Location List Locations known by multiple names are listed under all names Click on the title to go to the description for each location A-G H-N P-Z Acme Ponds ALE Amon Basin Amon Creek Amon Park Arid Lands Ecology Reserve Badger Canyon Barker Ranch Bassett Park Bateman Island / Marina Big Flat HMU Boise Cascade Heaps Camano Island Feedlot Case Road Casey Pond Cemetery Road Chamna Park (Preserve) Charbonneau Park Chiawana Park Clodfelter Road Cold Springs NWR Columbia Park Corfu County Line Ponds County Well Road Crow Butte Park Fitzner-Eberhard (FEALE) Gingko Park Hanford Reach National Monument Hanford Site Hanson Boat Launch Pond Hood State Park Horn Rapids County Park Horse Heaven Hills Map 1 Horse Heaven Hills Map 2 Howard Amon Park HRNM Huntzinger Road I-182 Yakima River Bridge Ice Harbor Dam Iowa Beef Ponds Job's Nursery Johnson Park Leslie Groves Park Levey Park (Levey Landing) Lind Coulee Lyon's Ferry State Park Madame Dorian Park & Overlook McBee Road McManamon Road McNary Dam McNary NWR MEEC (Education Center) MP 300 Ponds Nelson Island Neppel Landing North Richland neighborhoods Palouse Falls Para Ponds Pasco Humane Society Paterson Slough Perch Point Port Kelly Port Wallula Rattlesnake Mt. Ringold Sacajawea State Park Scootney Reservoir Selph Landing Marsh Sludge Piles Smith Canyon Snively Road South Slope Rattlesnake Mt. Two Rivers County Park Two Rivers HMU Tyson Ponds Umatilla NWR Van Hollebeke HMU Vantage Vernita Rest Stop Wahluke Unit Walla Walla River Delta Wallula Wanapum Washtucna WE Johnson Park Webber Canyon Whitcomb Island Willowbrook Windust Park Yakima River Delta

Geographically Grouped Location List Click on the title to go to webpage for each area

West Richland, Benton City, and Prosser Snively Road / Barker Ranch Horn Rapids County Park Hanford Reach National Monument - FEALE Vernita Rest Stop Horse Heaven Hills Map 1 McBee Grade Road Webber Canyon County Well Road South Slope of Rattlesnake Mountain  Richland - north of Interstate 182 Howard Amon Park WE Johnson Park Chamna Nature Preserve / Acme Ponds Leslie Groves Park and Nelson Island North Richland neighborhoods I-182 Yakima River Bridge (west end) Hanford Site (not available to public) South Richland and farther south to the Columbia River Amon Creek Basin and Willowbrook neighborhood Horse Heaven Hills Map 2 Clodfelter Rd Badger Canyon Cemetery Rd Paterson Slough (Umatilla NWR) Whitcomb Island (Umatilla NWR) Crow Butte Park Yakima River Delta, Kennewick, Finley Yakima River Delta Bateman Island and Bateman Marina Columbia Park Two Rivers Park Pasco and Franklin County Chiawana Park Pasco Humane Society Pond Sacajawea Park Job's Nursery Selph Landing Marsh Ringold Smith Canyon Scootney Reservoir

Burbank, Wallula and Walla River Delta Hood Park McNary NWR including  Mid-Columbia River Refuge HQ McNary Environ. Education Ctr (MEEC) Casey Pond Hansen Boat Launch Pond Milepost 300 Pond Walla Walla River Delta including  Madame Dorian Park Madame Dorian Overlook Port of Wallula Port Kelly Tyson Ponds, Boise Cascade Compost Heaps & Dodd Road Sludge Field Snake River Parks and areas South Side (Walla Walla County) Ice Harbor Dam Charbonneau Park Van Hollebeke HMU North Side (Franklin County) Levey Park (Landing) Big Flat HMU Windust Palouse Falls State Park Lyons Ferry Othello, Moses Lake, Vantage, Washtucna Hanford Reach National Monument - Wahluke Para Ponds - West McManamon Road County Line Ponds - Camano Island Feedlot Corfu Lind Coulee / Perch Point Vantage Huntzinger Road Wanapum Sentinel Gap Oasis Washtucna - Bassett Park Umatilla, Pendleton (NE Oregon) McNary Dam Cold Springs NWR