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Date: August 17, 2003
Location: Yakima County, Washington


Spent the morning mainly looking for shorebirds, I found one LESSER
YELLOWLEGS and sveral KILLDEER in the flooded pasture along Marion
Drain Rd. just west of Old Gopldendale Rd. This is in the area west
of the Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge.

I then ventured up to Wenas Lake and scoped the mud flats on the west
end of the lake. Birds of note here were 13 WILSON'S SNIPE, 1 LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, 4 WESTERN SANDPIPER, 1 LEAST SANDPIPER, and 2 GREAT
EGRETS. Note: Evening has much better light when birding Wenas Lake.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe [1]
Double-crested Cormorant [2]
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret [3]
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Osprey [4]
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
American Coot
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs [5]
Western Sandpiper [6]
Least Sandpiper [7]
Common Snipe [8]
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher [9]
Northern Flicker
Western Wood-Pewee
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike [10]
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
American Robin
European Starling
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] Zimmerman Ponds at Marion Dr. Rd. and Lateral "A" Rd.
[2] 2 at Wenas Lake
[3] 2 at Wenas Lake
[4] 1 at Wenas lake
[5] 1 at Marion Dr. and 1 at Wenas Lake
[6] Wenas Lake
[7] Wenas Lake
[8] Wenas Lake
[9] Wenas Lake
[10] Old Goldendale Rd.

Total number of species seen: 41