Hi,

Those were probably Tundra Swans... I had a flock of them in Ellensburg
yesterday just off I-90 at exit 109 on my way to wenas. More details
on my trip coming up.

Michael Dossett
Bothell
phainopepla at yahoo.com

--- lydia <lydia at wizards.net> wrote:
> 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
> Life Is A Soap On The Reality Side Of The Tube
>
>

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