Subject: [Tweeters] Birding SE Washington 12th &13th
Date: Sep 13 16:29:07 2009
From: Mike and MerryLynn - m.denny at charter.net


Hello All,

Yesterday morning at 6:15 AM we started birding Lyons Ferry Park (It is
closed for the season as of 9 Sept.). Then we birded Palouse Falls and spent
the afternoon birding Washtucna. Birds of note were......

Lyons Ferry

Black-headed Grosbeak.....1 female
Yellow Breasted Chat.........1 ad.
Wilsons Warbler.................98 birds
Yellow-rumped Warbler.....327 birds
Yellow Warbler...................2
Townsends Warbler.............7
Coopers Hawk....................2
Bald Eagle...........................1 ad. very early for this location.
Osprey................................2
Golden-crowned Kinglet.....1 ad.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet.........4
Warbling Vireo.....................5
Orange-crowned Warbler.....12
Wild Turkey..........................16
Turkey Vulture.......................3
Hermit Thrush........................1 bird
Common Yellowthroat...........12 birds, record for us here.
Lincolns Sparrows..................4 birds
Chipping Sparrows.................32 birds

Palouse Falls SP

Red-naped Sapsucker.........1 ad.
Rock Wren..........................1 ad.
Cassins Vireo.......................1 ad.
Warbling Vireo.....................1
Chipping Sparrows...............8 birds
Dark-eyed Juncos.................3


Washtucna

Vaux's Swift.......................3 birds
Am.REDSTART................1 female
Red-breasted Nuthatch.......2
Fox Sparrow.......................1
Townsends X Hermit Hybrid Warbler.....1 ad. male
Western Flycatcher..............1 ad.
Western wood-pewee..........1 ad.
Olive-sided Flycatcher..........1 ad.
Hermit Thrush.........................1 ad.

Today 13 Sept.

Walla Walla River delta

Franklins Gulls............2 sub. adults
Mew Gulls..................2 ad., 1 sub. ad.
Herring Gulls...............3 ad.
Glaucous-winged X Western Hybrids.....2 ad.

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