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

Date: October 2, 2004
Location: Yakima River Delta, Benton County, Washington


I spent a few hours at the Yakima River Delta this morning in search
of the SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER, but no such luck. The river was high
with very little exposed mud and the PEREGRINE FALCON harrassing the
shorebirds didn't help, but I did manage to see a SOLITARY
SANDPIPER, a SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, 3 AMERICAN AVOCETS and a
BONAPARTE'S GULL along with the usual suspects listed below.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Green-Winged Teal
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Red-tailed Hawk
Prairie Falcon
California Quail
American Avocet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Common Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Barn Swallow
Marsh Wren
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird

Total number of species seen: 37