Subject: [Tweeters] Yakima Valley
Date: Oct 10 23:27:47 2004
From: Kerry Turley - kdturley at bentonrea.com


Tweets,

I spent my usual Sunday on the Yakama Indian Reservation from Granger to
Lateral "C" Rd. and back to Mabton via Hwy 22.

Birds seen (in someone's taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Chukar - 8 birds along Pumphouse Rd.
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
Virginia Rail
Sora - 1 calling
American Coot
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs - 4 birds Id was based on the birds being larger than the
nearby killdeer
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1 bright Juvenil on flooded pasture along Marion Drain
Rd.
Long-billed Dowitcher - 10
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Total number of species seen: 57

Kerry Turley
Sunnyside
kdturley at bentonrea.com