Subject: [Tweeters] Migration through the Col.Complex Fire
Date: Sep 9 08:33:21 2006
From: mike denny - m.denny at charter.net


Hello All,
This last week was spent way up on Table Rock Fire Lookout watching Columbia
County, Washington burn up. The Columbia Complex Fire is now at over 100,000
acres and still growing. Migration passes right through this thick nearly
opaque soup that passes for air and we get to see what is on the move,
depending on where the wind is carring the smoke at the time. We are perched
at 6250' above the Walla Walla Valley in the northern Blue Mountains. Birds
of note this week.......

Am. Kestral...............31 birds
Peregrine Falcon........1 ad.
Prairie Falcon.............2 birds
N. Goshawk...............7 birds
Coopers Hawk...........34 birds
Sharp-shinned Hawk...22 birds
Golden Eagle...............2 birds
N.Harrier.....................11 birds
Red-tailed Hawk...........23
Horned Lark (arctic).....36
White-throated Swift.....4
Vaux's Swift..................131
Am. Pipit........................24
Cassins Vireo.................1
Swainsons Thrush...........1
Fox Sparrow..................2
Townsends Warbler.......2
Yellow-rumped Warbler..20
Great Horned Owl..........2
Dus-skee Grouse............5
Vesper Sparrow..............1
Savannah Sparrow..........3
Common Raven...............63
Turkey Vulture.................5 on 6 Sept. rare for area

Well that is it for this week. Seeing a huge fire and its impacts to this
region are very mind numbing.
Later Mike



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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
1354 S. E. Central Ave.
College Place, WA 99324
509.529.0080 (h)

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