[Tweeters] Black-legged Kittiwake Skamania County

[Wilson Cady]

The first winter BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE first found on Dec. 21 below Bonneville Dam in Skamania County was still present today, it is the second county record for this species. It roosts on the concrete fish passage structure on the north side of Cascade Island that is best viewed from near the restroom along Dam Access Road about halfway to the dam. Cascade Island is entirely in Washington and used to be the north shore of the Columbia River before they decided the river needed to be wider so that they could build a second powerhouse for the dam. To widen the river, they tore down the old town of North Bonneville and excavated a new channel through where the town, Highway 14 and the rail tracks used to be leaving a chunk of what used to be mainland as an island. Some people are confusing this channel as being the dividing line between Washington and Oregon, but that border is in the channel on the south side of Cascade Island. Before the 2nd Powerhouse was built, we used to be able to drive to the shoreline to fish below the dam from what is now the south shore of Cascade Island.  Wilson Cady
Columbia River Gorge, WA
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