Subject: [Tweeters] Yakima River Delta
Date: Oct 3 11:19:18 2004
From: Kerry Turley - kdturley at bentonrea.com


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

Tweets,

I spent a few hours at the Yakima River Delta Sunday 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 someone's 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
Wilson's Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
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

Kerry Turley
Sunnyside
kdturley at bentonrea.com