Hello All,

It was a calm and snowy start to this CBC in Walla Walla. There were 38 participants with 12 sections to cover. This was the 37th CBC in Walla Walla. We have 74 species located to date. This outstanding group of volunteer bird counters broke ten records at the end of the day. We smashed the Wild Turkey record from 343 in 2009 to 679 this year. No Ruffed Grouse!!

Old record New Record
Canada Geese..............1745 2046
Wild Turkey..................... 343 679
Sharp-shinned Hawk.........10 19
Coopers Hawk...................16 20
Red-tailed Hawk..............139 283
Am. Kestrel....................... 74 88
Eurasian-coll. Dove.......... 5 43
Downy Woodpecker........ 28 32
Townsends Solitaire........ 12 36
Cedar Waxwing...............399 429

The rest of the numbers will be published to the www.blumtn.org the end of this Thursday.
Thank-you Mike Denny



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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
Birding the beautiful Walla Walla Valley

"If you haven't birded, you haven't lived"