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

Date: January 20, 2003
Location: Yakima County, Washington


I did a lot of meandering from Sunnyside to the Yakima River Canyon
today, mostly via Hwy 12, including a stop at the Yakima Arboretum
sparrow patch and Buchanan Lake.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Horned Grebe [1]
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle [2]
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Chukar [3]
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl [4]
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow [5]
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco [6]
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch [7]
House Finch
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] Buchanan Lake
[2] Yakima Arboretum
[3] Yakima River Canyon mile post 4
[4] Sunnyside Cemetery
[5] Slate-colored "Passerella (iliaca)schistacea"
[6] 1 - was "Slate-colored" the rest "Oregon" race
[7] Yakima River Canyon mile post 4

Total number of species seen: 42