For what it’s worth American Falls is down to 86% and dropping but still
well above the average for the date. Here’s a graph for anyone interested:
https://www.usbr.gov/pn-bin/graphwy.pl?amf_af

Cliff

On 07/26/2017 02:40 PM, Austin Young austinyoung234@gmail.com [ible] wrote:
> For what it’s worth, I was told by other fish and game folks that A.F.
> Reservoir will probably be full well into August.
>
> Austin Young
> Twin Falls, ID
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 14:36 Chuck Trost trostchuck@cableone.net
> [ible] > wrote:
>
> Howdy,
> AFR is still full, with little mud exposed. But there are a couple
> spots worth watching. One is Pacific Pond, which is on Pacific
> Rd., turn left after the train tracks on the way to Willow Bay. It
> is drying up and I’ve had Western Sandpipers and Black-necked
> Stilts there. Another good spot is near Seagull Bay, about 5 miles
> east of American Falls. There is a drying impoundment at the upper
> end of the bay with lots of exposed mud. Yesterday I counted 2
> Great Egrets, 40 White-faced Ibis, 3 Killdeer, 2 Willets, 5
> Western Sandpipers, 15 Wilson’s Phalaropes, and 15 Long-billed
> Dowitchers on the mud at the upper end. I’ll keep you posted on
> the migration.
> Good Birding,
> Chuck Trost
>
> Always forward, never straight…
>
> —
> Austin Young
> Twin Falls, ID
> austinyoung224@gmail.com
>

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