Subject: Birding at Umptanum/Wenas
Author: KJUE at ZGI-NN
Date: 6/10/96 9:42 AM



Sorry to post so late, but Maureen Ellis and I had a great day birding
up Umptanum Road into Wenas and Umptanum Canyon on Sunday, June 2nd.
(for the sake of space, I'm not repeating birds seen in each area)

On the way over:

Cliff swallow
Canada geese
Stellar's jay
American crow
Robin
Osprey (typical pond nests)
Raven
Barn swallow
Great blue heron

Umptanum Canyon

Kestral
Brewers blackbird
White crowned sparrow
Chipping sparrow
Brown-headed cowbird
Yellow-rumped warbler
Bewick's wren
Starling
Chat
Prairie falcon
Yellow warbler
Bullock's oriole
Black-headed grosbeak
Common nighthawk
Nesting rock doves
Northern rough-wing swallow
Western wood pewee
Warbling vireo
American goldfinch
House wren
Rock wren (vo)
Small black and orange warbler (Maureen speculated it could be an
American redstart....have they been seen in Umptanum Canyon??)

Umptanum Road/Wenas

Cassins finch
Mourning dove
Western kingbird
Black-billed magpie
Mountain bluebird
Sage thrasher (a life bird for Maureen)
White-breasted nuthatch
Mountain chickadee
Pacific slope flycatcher
Lewis' woodpecker
Redtail hawk (dark morph)
Western meadowlark
California quail
Tree swallow
Mallard
Lazuli bunting
Common yellowthroat

At the dipper bridge

Gray catbird (singing away right next to the road)
Dipper nest but no dipper today
Also the robin nest was empty, does anyone think the young could have
survived fledglinghood in the middle of thre stream?
Veery
The Great blue heron nest in big conifer with adult and fledgling


Karen Juenemann
JUENEMAK at ZGI.com