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Date: July 6, 2003
Location: Yakima County, Washington


I spent a pleasant Sunday birding the upper North Fork of Ahtanum
Creek in Yakima County. Even though it's July, and past the prime
birding time for this area, it is still spring in the upper
elevations with lots of wildflowers and butterflies to take up the
slack.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

American White Pelican [1]
Turkey Vulture [2]
Osprey [3]
Red-tailed Hawk
Ruffed Grouse
California Quail
Killdeer
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Vaux's Swift
Calliope Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Lewis' Woodpecker
Red-naped Sapsucker [4]
Northern Flicker
Western Wood-Pewee
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Mountain Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Western Tanager
Chipping Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Cassin's Finch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] 3 - along Yakima River at Parker Bottom
[2] 2 - Tampico
[3] 5 - 2 adults and 3 chicks at Indian Church Rd. Granger
[4] 2 - Adults feeding young in a Quaking Aspen tree

Total number of species seen: 45