Subject: Yakima County Osprey question
Date: Jun 23 14:44:20 2004
From: Denny Granstrand - dgranstrand at charter.net


Hi Tweeters,

We (BirdYakkers) have been compiling a list of the Osprey nests in the Yakima Valley. There are 14 nests on the list now, most of them at ponds along Interstate 82. A question came up: Were there any nesting Ospreys in the Yakima Valley before Interstate 82 came along with its freeway ponds? I-82 was built in the early 1980s. Most ponds beside it came from holes dug for gravel for the freeway.

If those of you who birded regularly in the Yakima area before 1980 could look through your records and give us an idea about the Osprey population here before 1980, it will be greatly appreciated.

Denny Granstrand
Yakima, WA

* Denny Granstrand *
* Yakima, WA *
* dgranstrand at charter.net *
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