Hello Tweets!
Headed out to Yakima Canyon with a group of Mountainners yesterday.
Enroute at 70 mph, I could only correctly ID the two BLACK BILLED MAGPIES
swooping across the freeway in front of my car. Just west of Ellensburg
I also spied an OSPRY platform atop a power pole with possibly two in
residence! Closer in to E'burg, as I sped past a pond three SWANS took
off in flight to the south. Any idea which kind of swan I spied?

Our group drove south a ways into the canyon and parked on the west side
of the road and headed UP, and up and up into the hills. We crossed the
river at the swinging bridge. At about five to eight hundred feet above
the river we glanced east and saw what looked for all the world like half
of an IMPACT CRATER in the side of the hill. Having seen the Meteor
Crater in Arizona I think what we saw was a crater. Our hike leader has
been up even higher and has seen the smaller ring at the bottom of this
"crater" which is diagnostic of meteor craters. Anybody know the
origins of this possible crater?

While exploring the canyon area we HEARD some very noisy birds, as if
they were teasing "You can't see us! You can't see us!". Above us we
spied some large black-ish birds working the air currents, soaring and
diving. They seemed to be too large to be crows. (Do crows and ravens
work the wind like raptors?) Somebody in our group thought they might be
buzzards of some kind.

Time to go and check out the Green River Trail and "Ol' Fishin'
Hole"......haven't been out there lately.

Lydia In Kent

Lydia Gaebe In Kent, WA
lydia at wizards.net
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