This report was mailed for Kerry Turley by http://birdnotes.net

Date: December 23, 2001
Location: Yakima County, Washington


Birded from the Toppenish wildlife refuge area to the Yakima
Arboretum with the following results. COMMON REDPOLLS still in the
area.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin [1]
Prairie Falcon
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
Common Snipe
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl [2]
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow [3]
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow [4]
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
Common Redpoll [5]
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] Harrassing a Northern Harrier along Lateral "A"
[2] Two paired up at the Refuge headquarters
[3] at the Arboretum feed station
[4] at the Arboretum feed station
[5] 13 at Lateral "C" and Fort Rd. been there two weeks now, looks
like they may stay awhile.

Total number of species seen: 48