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

Date: May 4, 2003
Location: Yakima County, Washington


My Sunday tour of the lower Yakima Valley turned up a few new
migrants. No Bobolinks yet on Lateral "C" Rd. and couldn't find any
Wilson's Phalaropes. Hope the get hear in time for the Birdathon.

I birded from the Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge (including the
HQ and Observation Deck), along Pumphouse Rd, to Lateral "C", to
Marion Drain RD. to Ft Simcoe and back along Marion Dr. to Old
Goldendale Rd., back to Pumphouse Rd.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture [1]
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Redhead
Common Merganser
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Solitary Sandpiper [2]
Western Sandpiper [3]
Common Snipe
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl [4]
Vaux's Swift [5]
Lewis' Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Say's Phoebe [6]
Western Kingbird
Western Scrub-Jay [7]
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Marsh Wren
American Robin
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1] 5 over observation deck & 5 over Ft. Simcoe.
[2] 1 - in flooded corral along Pumphouse Rd. milepost 8
[3] 4 - in flooded corral along Pumphouse Rd. milepost 8
[4] 2-adults 2-young in nest
[5] 2 Ft. Simcoe.
[6] along Pumphouse Rd.
[7] 2 at Ft Simcoe.

Total number of species seen: 59