Chirp, At dusk today a lone Goldeneye was on the pond north of the parking area for the Poppoff Trail in Union Gap. Using my Nat Geo guide, I was fairly sure ...
Rich712@...
Nov 2, 2002 5:53 am
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Hi Yakkers, This came in this evening from Jennie Hodge. Thought you would be interested. Denny Hello Denny, I had an unusual bird sighting and a couple of my...
Hi Yakkers, I toted a green plastic garbage can and 100 pounds of birdseed out to the Arboretum sparrow patch this morning. If any of you stop by there and...
Chirp, Unfortunately the swan's song fell upon three of the most audioogically challenged members of the YVAS...where are the patrons of the Yakima Symphony ...
Rich712@...
Nov 3, 2002 6:29 pm
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Yakkers, Today (3 November), Ellen and I toured the Wenas area, starting in Ellensburg. We observed about 50 species of birds, roughly half what one expects on...
Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Nov 4, 2002 3:07 am
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Hi Yakkers, An e-mail came from Tweeters today announcing Seattle Audubon's BirdWeb site. It is an online database of the some 350 species of birds that occur...
Hi Yakkers, Scott Ray reminded me that I did not include the URL for BirdWeb in last night's e-mail. Here it is: http://www.birdweb.org Denny * * * * * * * *...
Chirp, After spreading a bucket of seed at the Sparrow Patch around 1:15 today, I sat down on one of the stumps and watched. After fifteen minutes of ebb and ...
Rich712@...
Nov 6, 2002 11:25 pm
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Where is the "sparrow patch" at the Arboretum, Rich? It sounds like fun. Margaret Parkinson ... From: Rich712@... [mailto:Rich712@...] Sent:...
Marj, The quickest way to access the Sparrow Patch is to drive past the main Arboretum building down the gravel road to the parking area by the maintenance...
Rich712@...
Nov 7, 2002 5:45 am
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Saw about 30 common mergansers on Lake Aspen Wednesday. I work near there now and can take a quick walk along the Greenway during my lunch hour. Lots of...
vbackstrom
VBackstrom@...
Nov 7, 2002 3:31 pm
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One of our College donors who has an office on Lake Aspen says that the "platoon" of 30+ mergansers, which I also saw on Tuesday early morning from his office,...
Kathleen Ross
kaross@...
Nov 8, 2002 5:24 am
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Ken here. I once watched a sharpie corner a bunch of juncos in a lilac bush outside of my house in Cle Elum. The sharpie's first attack put them into the ...
Deb Davis & Ken Bevis
baviskd@...
Nov 8, 2002 6:48 am
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Birders, As I went out the door for work on Thur. I was met with a raucous greeting in my backyard. In my big bird tree was a beautiful Stellar's Jay. He...
Betty Peterson
magato99@...
Nov 9, 2002 10:00 pm
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Whats the address? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Bobbinlisa@...
Nov 10, 2002 4:36 am
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... For those of you who missed my second e-mail about Seattle Audubon's BirdWeb site, here is the address again: http://www.birdweb.org Denny * * * * * * * *...
I realize I'm not exactly near Yakima--but FYI there were waves of snow buntings about 18 miles north of Ellensburg yesterday up on the Beacon Ridge Rd.(part...
Saturday afternoon I stopped by the sparrow patch for a few minutes. I had been there for a couple of minutes when a Sharp-shinned Hawk appeared. Of course,...
Hi Yakkers, After a week of not seeing the Jay, he returned Wednesday and comes in for a couple of hours each day to feed. He must have been extra hungry today...
Sue Ericksen
ericksen@...
Nov 10, 2002 11:28 pm
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Hi Deb, How many total Snow Buntings do you think you saw and in how long a time period? This sounds like a pretty amazing, and unusual, sighting. Denny ... *...
Yakkers, I birded (more driving than birding) the Ellensburg area today, but I was unable to find Beacon Ridge Rd. on any of my maps or in the DeLorme and the ...
Yakkers, On Nov 10th made my usual Sunday trip to the Toppenish Wildlife Refuge, including Pumphouse Rd. to Old Goldendale Rd. to Marion Drain to Lateral "C" ...
Greetings, We still have a Stellar's Jay lurking around the neighborhood. Yesterday I watched it hopping around in the filberts, pecking at branches like a ...
Deb Davis & Ken Bevis
baviskd@...
Nov 13, 2002 3:20 pm
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Chirp, Made a short late afternoon trip down to the Sparrow Patch today. After scattering some seed, I sat down on one of the log stools. In the first few ...
Rich712@...
Nov 14, 2002 2:12 am
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Yakkers-- So sorry I was not more specific on directions. The Beacon Ridge Road is off the old Vantage Hwy near the top of the hill about 18 miles east of...
eh all, fri. the 15th. cormorant 5 g b heron several g egret 1 mallards 30 harrier several cooper's 1 redtail several kestrel several rock dove...
g.r.hadersberger
gunterr@...
Nov 15, 2002 6:05 pm
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Wanted to comment on the Snow Buntings and hopefully help on finding Beacon Ridge Road. I drive up that road a couple a times a month throughout the year. I...
Stopped by the Yakima Arboretum this morning from 11:30 to 12:15 to look for the White-throated Sparrow. After about 30 minutes the sparrow came out of the...
I posted some pictures on BirdYak of the White-throated Sparrow taken at the Sparrow Patch this morning. Although they aren't spectacular they give an idea of...
Greetings from E-burg again. I was refilling the feeders this evening (around 4:45 PM) and a Northern pygmy-owl flew out from the nearby spruce and landed on...
