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


Spent the Holiday birding in the lower Yakima Valley from Sunnyside
to Ft. Simcoe. Best birds of the day were the American Tree Sparrow
at Toppenish Wildlife Refuge, this was the first ATSP Ive had on the
refuge, and a leucistic Brewer's Blackbird on Marion Drain, that was
all dingy white but had normal coloration to the eyes, beak, and legs.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Lewis' Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Northern Shrike
Western Scrub-Jay
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Bewick's Wren
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch

Total number of species seen: 40