Subject: Birding Trip Report: Yakima County, Washington on December 22, 2002
Date: Dec 22 10:44:54 2002
From: kdturley at bentonrea.com - kdturley at bentonrea.com


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

Date: December 22, 2002
Location: Yakima County, Washington


Went to the Toppenish Wildlife Refuge this morning and found it
fogged in, so I birded from there to Wapato, into Yakima, and on to
Moxie.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Wood Duck [1]
American Wigeon
Mallard
Ring-necked Duck
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
California Quail
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl [2]
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Horned Lark [3]
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing [4]
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow [5]
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow [6]
Dark-eyed Junco
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] Yakima Arboretum
[2] Wapato
[3] Moxie
[4] Yakima Arboretum
[5] Yakima Arboretum
[6] Yakima Arboretum

Total number of species seen: 34