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Date: April 23, 2006

Location: Yakima County, Washington





It was a beautiful if somewhat blustery day for the Yakima Valley

Audubon Field Trip to the Yakama Indian Reservation and the Toppenish

National Wildlife Refuge on Sunday.



With the drought over and lots of water flowing out of Toppenish

Creek the birdibg was good.



Highlights include SANDHILL CRANE seen along Pumphouse Rd. with an

Eurasian Wigeon sitting among literally hundreds of American Wigeon.

BLACK-NECKED STILTS and LONG-BILLED CURLEW are always a treat and

WILSON'S SNIPE were winnowing everywhere.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Canada Goose

Gadwall

Eurasian Wigeon [1]

American Wigeon

Mallard

Cinnamon Teal

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Green-Winged Teal

Redhead

Ring-necked Duck

Unknown Scaup

Bufflehead

Ring-necked Pheasant

California Quail

American White Pelican [2]

American Bittern

Great Blue Heron

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Northern Harrier

Cooper's Hawk [3]

Red-tailed Hawk

American Kestrel

American Coot

Sandhill Crane [4]

Killdeer

Black-necked Stilt

Long-billed Curlew

Dunlin

Common Snipe

Rock Dove

Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl

Northern Flicker

Loggerhead Shrike

Black-billed Magpie

Common Raven

Tree Swallow

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Bewick's Wren

Marsh Wren

American Robin

European Starling

American Pipit

Yellow Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Savannah Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Red-winged Blackbird

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Brewer's Blackbird

House Finch

American Goldfinch



Footnotes:



[1] Pumphouse Rd.

[2] Granger

[3] Pumphouse Canal

[4] Pumphouse Rd.



Total number of species seen: 60