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

Date: December 7, 2003
Location: Yakima County, Washington


Met with Rich Repp today at the Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge
and we spent the day scouting parts of our CBC routes. This consisted
mainly of the Refuge HQ, observation deck, Pumphouse Rd., Mud Lake,
Lateral "C" Rd., Charlies Pond (Lateral "C" and Fort Rd.) and some of
the side roads.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk [1]
American Kestrel
Prairie Falcon [2]
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
Virginia Rail [3]
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Northern Shrike [4]
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren [5]
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet [6]
Ruby-crowned Kinglet [7]
European Starling
Savannah Sparrow [8]
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] 1 - along harrah Rd. South of Marion Drain Rd.
[2] 1 - Lateral "C" Rd. and Marion Drain Rd.
[3] Heard clucking along the trail from the observation deck and HQ
[4] we had four of them, 2 along Old Goldendale Rd. and 2 along
Pumphouse Rd.
[5] 1 - at Lateral "C" Rd. and Toppenish Creek
[6] at HQ
[7] at HQ
[8] 2 - posed for a good five minutes along the trail from the
observation deck and HQ

Total number of species seen: 39