Subject: [Tweeters] White-throated Sparrow/Bennington Lake Walla Walla
Date: Sep 28 13:53:04 2004
From: mike denny - m.denny at charter.net


Hi all,
Birds of Bennington Lake Tuesday am:
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 40+
MacGillivray's Warbler - 3
Wilson's Warbler - 8
Hammond's Flycatcher - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 1 (almost sounding like June)
Cassin's Vireo - 1
Red-naped Sapsucker
House Wren - 1
American Pipit - 75+ - constant fly-overs
Merlin - chasing the shorebirds:
Greater Yellowlegs - 2
Long-billed Dowitcher - 8
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
Western Sandpiper - 1
Killdeer - 16
Great Egret - 1
Western Grebe - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
---1 chasing up 8 flickers - 1 was Yellow-shafted
Dark-eyed Junco - 35+
Savannah Sparrows - 12
Lincoln's Sparrow - 8
Spotted Towhee - 5
Finches - lots on sunflower patch
OUR YARD:
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Siskins - 100+
Evening Grosbeaks - 8
Cedar Waxwings (on birdbath) - 32
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Townsend's Warbler - bathing in sprinkler
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
White-crowned Sparrows - 15
English Sparrows - 85+ (they chase everything else!)
Am. Goldfinch, House Finch - lots
Later,
MerryLynn
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