Yesterday I found five Mute Swans on a pond at the south end of Lateral A on
the Toppenish NWR. All were adults. This is the first time I have seen
more than one.

On Lateral C were:

- twenty Bobolinks on the west side of the road - five about 150
yards north of Toppenish Creek and fifteen about a quarter of a
mile north of the creek;
- heard two Soras and one American Bittern
- eight Wilson's Phalaropes.

On South Harrah Road:

- Gray Catbird, a real good look in the scope;
- three Willow Flycatchers, one also in the scope;
- heard one Sora, one Virginia Rail and one American Bittern.

Along Pumphouse Road:

- one immature Bald Eagle, the latest sighting I have had in the
Spring in Yakima County except at Rimrock Lake where they nest.

Yellow-headed Blackbirds are now very easy to find on the Topppenish NWR.
When I started birding there about twenty years ago they were not there at
all.

Denny Granstrand
Yakima, WA




Denny Granstrand