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HABITAT:	3,100 acres of BuRec/WDFW North Potholes Reserve with open-water wetlands, mature willow trees, and seasonal mud flats.
BIRDING:	Premier spot in spring and summer! Watch Great Blue Herons, Double-crested Cormorants, Black-crowned Night-Herons, and Great Egrets fly back and forth to rookeries. Other nesters include Spotted Sandpipers, Wilson’s Phalaropes, Downy Woodpeckers, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Tree Swallows, Bewick’s Wrens, Bullock’s Orioles, and Eastern Kingbirds. Summer brings flocks of non-breeding American White Pelicans. Fall migrants include Baird’s and Solitary Sandpipers, and Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, plus many species of waterfowl.
VIEWING:	Park and walk back along dike. Colonial nesting birds to north are sensitive to disturbance; please stay on dike. At Reserve boundary, watch eagles fly in to roost after 3 pm on winter afternoons.
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 right (west). Drive 1 mile. At Y intersection, turn right (west). Drive 0.9 mile to Game Reserve boundary. Drive 0.6 mile west across earthen dike to parking area.

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