Date: September 1, 2002 Yakkers, I birded this morning in the area around the Toppenish Wildlife Refuge. The hot spot was the flooded field South of Marion...
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Rich712@...
Sep 2, 2002 6:23 am
Chirp, Thursday morning I felt compelled to head for the lower valley. I was up at a decent hour and felt I would be able to check the Marion Drain flooded ...
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Rich712@...
Sep 2, 2002 6:32 am
Kerry, Great post! I'm sorry I missed out on the Phalarope but the thought of being confronted with 60 Lesser Yellowlegs boggles my mind. Could there have...
Rich, Unfortunately the yellowlegs were all little carbon copies (how's that for dating onself, my grandkids don't know what a carbon copy is) of each other. ...
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Rich712@...
Sep 2, 2002 9:48 pm
Chirp, Bob Morse's presentation based on his book "A Birder's Guide to Coastal Washington" at last month's Audubon meeting inspired me to seek out our county's...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 2, 2002 11:07 pm
Yakkers, Though there didn't seem to be any migrants around our home in Wapato this morning, I took off for Fort Simcoe to see if the situation was different ...
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Sue Ericksen
ericksen@...
Sep 3, 2002 1:47 am
Rich, Best ask Joyce Lucas about those moved boulders! Luckily it only cost her insurance company $461 to fix my car. <G> We thoroughly enjoy your posts. Keep...
Hi Sue, I am sure there is a longer story here! Denny ... * * * * * * * * * * * * Denny Granstrand * * Yakima, WA * * osprey@... * * * * * * * *...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 3, 2002 1:41 pm
Yakkers, Ellen and I took a quick tour of the flooded fields along Marion Drain Road, last evening, then walked around the Zimmerman ponds at the south end of ...
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Sue Ericksen
ericksen@...
Sep 5, 2002 2:12 am
Yakkers, We went out birding today and saw practically ZILCH, NADA. What gives? Bad luck (Bill says he's a jinx) or bad Karma? We took these long lists of ...
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Sturnella@...
Sep 9, 2002 3:45 pm
On Sept. 7, 2002, a group of 7 Auduboners went up to the Clear Lake, Rimrock Lake area for a day of birding. Big dark clouds loomed all around the higher hills...
Yesterday while up at Bickleton I saw a Scrub Jay, which is a new bird for me. Are they seen often in our area? When checking in my field guides,it says that...
Phyllis, The Western Scrub Jay range has been slowly expanding over the last few decades. These birds are breeders in the Lyle area and a few miles up the ...
On 9/11 I heard my first American Pipits flying over the place. There were about 25 birds. This evening I flushed about 25 from my garden area. It really...
I just got back from vacation and, catching up on the bird news, noticed questions about the location of those infamous Wenas boulders..... Those were caused...
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g.r.hadersberger
gunterr@...
Sep 16, 2002 6:13 pm
eh all, 7 attend the field trip to the satus area. a total of 34 species were recorded. present in the order they occurred. red tailed hawk flycatche sp. ...
Hi Yakkers, I got a call last night from a woman who lives on Birchfield Road, across from the corrals where the grackle was hanging out in the spring. She...
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Rich712@...
Sep 19, 2002 4:19 pm
Chirp, While walking the Greenway from the Arboretum to Sarg Hubbard Park, I glanced at a duck with a white facial crescent floating idly on Buchanan Lake ...
I enjoyed a variety of Fall visitors out here in West Valley this morning. A flock of close to 100+ TREE SWALLOWS cavorted around and stopped to preen on a...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 20, 2002 6:57 pm
Yakkers, This morning, I heard a Lapland Longspur at the crest of Rattlesnake Ridge, north of Wapato. This record is earlier by one month, the prior early fall...
Hi All, Well, I guess summer is gone. Today I enjoyed Townsend's, Yellow- Rumped, Wilson's, and Yellow warblers in my yard trees. This was the first Yellow...
Date: September 22, 2002 Location: Yakima County, Washington Yakkers, A Sunday romp around the Lower Yakima Valley (Toppenish Wildlife refuge to Ft. Simcoe) on...
Rich, The 5 (five) Western Scrub Jays were in the same area that the Vermillion Fly-catcher was seen near the mool-mool stream next to the caretakers house. To...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 23, 2002 3:51 am
Kerry, Exciting! I can't wait to go try to find these guys. Andy ... From: Kerry Turley <> To: <Rich712@...> Cc: Birdyak <> Sent: Sunday, September 22,...
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Rich712@...
Sep 23, 2002 4:12 am
Chirp, Shazam! Just as Scott predicted, a Western Scrub-Jay has turned up at Ft. Simcoe. And not just one but five! Here I sit...poised on the launching pad...
Richard, If we were all ten years younger, we'd meet at Fort Simcoe at dawn, which this time of year is just after 6:00 a.m., have a wonderful time with the ...
Hi Yakkers, Richard Repp located the scrub jays at Fort Simcoe this morning after his dentist appointment and called me to report at about 11:45. I was...
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Rich712@...
Sep 24, 2002 4:36 am
Chirp, I managed to flee the dentist's chair, albeit with a much lighter wallet, this morning to make a trip to Ft. Simcoe to search for the Western Scrub-Jays...
This evening as I stood in my driveway at 6:30pm for 15 minutes or so, hundreds of American Pipits were moving northeast. The first loose flock contained 55...
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g.r.hadersberger
gunterr@...
Sep 26, 2002 11:36 pm
eh all, new one around the house. lincoln's sparrow. saw this little bird serval tilmes, but did not have glasses. finally took them and he/she poted up...
