Hello all,
This morning I (MerryLynn) walked the Fort Walla Walla Natural Area and
found many birds in migration and some stocking up on
elderberries/chokecherries.
Gray Flycatcher - 1 - county year bird #228 for Walla Walla (a rare migrant
here)
Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1
Hammond's Flycatcher - 2
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Wilson's Warbler - 2
Pewees - many - lots of young - breed here
Yellow Warbler - many - breed here
Western Tanager - 8
Black-headed Grosbeaks - 6 - 8
also breeders still here:
Gray Catbirds - 6 - still singing
Yellow-breasted Chat - 4 - also one still "singing" (more like chattering!)
and lots of the usual Bewick's Wrens, House Wrens, BC Chickadees, Song
Sparrows.
Happy Vagrant Hunting! ML


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

IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN BIRDING, YOU HAVEN'T LIVED!
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