Subject: [Tweeters] Vantage red-breasted merganser, common redpoll and more
Date: Nov 10 17:11:28 2012
From: Scott Downes - downess at charter.net


Spent the morning at Vantage. A few nice birds, some were new arrivals and some were lingering from previous weeks.

Common Redpoll-one bird calling as a flyover at Ginkgo overlook
Pacific Loon-1 continuing bird below Wanapum Dam
Red-breasted Merganser-1 female below Wanapum Dam
Tundra Swan-9 birds below Wanapum Dam
American White Pelican-3 lingering birds below Wanapum Dam

Massive scaup flocks above Wanapum Dam. Scanned for Tufted Duck, but no luck.

Stopped by Sorenson Pond in Ellensburg on the way home and had 6 Tundra Swan and 5 Canvasback there. A final stop was a nice hike up Umptanum Trail in the Yakima Canyon. Most of the trail was fairly quite but had a nice adult tan-striped White-throated Sparrow among Golden-crowned Sparrows in the rose thickets just west of the railroad tracks.

Scott Downes
downess at charter.net
Yakima WA