Subject: Toppenish Wildlife Refuge
Date: Apr 17 22:05:28 2000
From: Kerry Turley - kdturley at bentonrea.com


Toppenish wildlife Refuge - Sunday 16 April 2000

Census type: Simple List Counters: 1 Hours counted: 1

Note:

Cloudy and approximately 50? as viewed in one hour from the observation
platform. The high point of the morning was a formation of 8 Great Egrets.
This is the most I've seen in Washington at one time and the first I've seen
at the Toppenish Wildlife Refuge.

Great Blue Heron
Great Egret (eight (8) flying North in formation).
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
American Wigeon
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-Winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
Common Snipe
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Tree Swallow
American Robin
European Starling
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Sparrow
Total number of species: 32

?Fate succumbs many a species:
one alone jeoprodises itself.?
- W. H. Auden

Kerry Turley <><
304 E. Woodin Rd.
Sunnyside, WA 98944
ICQ# 9396464
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