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HABITAT:	Shoreline access for 28,000-acre BuRec/WDFW Potholes Reservoir Wildlife Area of ponds, marshes, mud flats, and willow trees.
BIRDING:	Neotropical songbirds like Warbling Vireos migrate through in spring. Breeding birds include Tree Swallows, Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Black-headed Grosbeaks, and Downy Woodpeckers. May-June, view courtship of Western and Clark’s Grebes. August and early September bring shorebirds, with Baird’s and Western Sandpipers and Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs. Winter’s high water attracts hundreds of Canada Geese and Mallards.
VIEWING:	Use scope for best viewing of expansive landscape frequented by colonial nesters like Great Egrets, Black-crowned Night-Herons, American White Pelicans, and Caspian Terns. Take trail 0.1 mile toward water.
ACCESS:	From I-90, take exit 174 (Mae Valley/Hansen Rd). Drive west 2.3 miles on frontage road on south side of I-90. Turn left (south) at Public Fishing/Public Hunting sign onto unnamed gravel road. Drive 2.5 miles roughly following power lines. (Note Potholes Wildlife Area sign at 0.3 mile.) At 3-way intersection, turn left (east), then turn left immediately again. Drive 0.3 mile to overlook parking.

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