Subject: Fwd: Bird sighting
Date: Feb 7 23:46:40 2004
From: Rolan Nelson - rnbuffle at yahoo.com


Denny and All, Swan? -Rolan

Denny Granstrand <dgranstrand at charter.net> wrote:Hi Tweeters,

I write a weekly column for the Yakima Herald-Republic newspaper about the birds being seen in the general Yakima County area. I get some unusual phone calls and e-mails. One of them is below. People driving through the Kittitas Valley should be on the alert.

Denny Granstrand
Yakima, WA



>Dear Mr.. Granstrand,
>
>I am no birder. I just have a general interest in animals. I believe I saw a crane yesterday. I was on my way back to Yakima from a Spokane business trip.
>
>About 3:00 yesterday afternoon, between Kittitas and Ellensburg, I saw a large bird flying low to the ground. It was roughly the size of a heron, except it was white and flew with its neck straight out forward rather in the S shape herons fly with.
>
>This was on the north side of the interstate. Please let me know if anyone can confirm this.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dean Szczepanski
>
>

* Denny Granstrand *
* Yakima, WA *
* dgranstrand at charter.net *
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http://osprey.bardill.net/gallery/




Rolan Nelson
Fircrest, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com

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