Subject: [Tweeters] Walla Walla Co. SNOW BUNTINGS
Date: Oct 11 17:47:05 2009
From: Mike and MerryLynn - m.denny at charter.net
Hello All,
Our morning started out with the female Anna's Hummer in our yard. Then we
headed north to Fishook Park via the North Touchet River Rd. where we
discovered a Northern Shrike along the Touchet River. Driving north up onto
the Eureka Flats where we found an adult Loggerhead Shrike which ML photoed.
Then on to Fishook Park where we saw the following bird species:
Hermit Thrush......2 birds
Merlin..................1 calling
Coopers Hawk....1
Red-breasted Nuthatches...4 birds
Golden-crowned Kinglet....6 birds
Ruby-crowned Kinglets.....8 birds
N. Flicker.........................42 birds
Horned Grebe...................1 bird
Van Hollebecke HMU
Lincoln's Sparrow...............2 birds
Yellow-rumped Warbler.....50+ BIRDS
White-crowned Sparrow....120+ birds
Sheffler Rd. west out of Clyde
Northern Rough-legged Hawk...1st bird of the season
SNOW BUNTING...................2 HY birds-earliest date ever in Walla Walla
Co.. ML took many great photos.
That is it.
Later Mike
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Mike and MerryLynn Denny
Birding the beautiful Walla Walla Valley
If you have not birded, you have not lived