Hello all,
After spending a couple hours in the drizzle this morning looking for the
Great Gray Owl (that had been seen just 40 min. before) without luck Ginger
Shoemake and I headed out to Bennington Lake for our usual Tuesday walk.
Birds seen:

Tundra Swan - 2 flocks flew over the lake but didn't come down - 48 in one
and 17 in the next. They headed south.
Common Goldeneye - 41
Hooded Merganser - 1 female
Common Mergansers - 42
N. Harrier - 1 female
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Northern Goshawk - 1 adult eating a robin
Kestrel - 1
Merlin - 1 dark flyover
Peregrine Falcon - 2 birds flying low - headed south. 1 a beautiful adult
bird.
Great Horned Owl - 2 birds perched in view on south end
Hairy Woodpecker - 2 birds and several Downy
Northern Shrike - 1 adult
Townsend's Solitaire - 10 - several singing
many robins, several cedar waxwings, a few song and wc sparrows and bewick's
wrens.
Folks are out looking for the Great Gray Owl as I write this -
Later, MerryLynn

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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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