This morning I spotted what I think are two juvenile northern flickers. I can't find a picture of one, but it does have a very black spotted breast, no breast...
Andy, Mac and I were photographing today on YTC and saw 6 sage grouse. Got photos of one, the others flushed out of range. This is the most I have ever seen ...
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John J. Hebert
jhebert8235@...
Sep 4, 2005 6:31 am
My dog and I took a walk along the Poppoff trail around noon today. Highlights include: MacGillivray's Warbler, one bright male Western Tanager, three Gray...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 5, 2005 4:57 am
Hi Everyone, We took a trail new for us from Conrad Meadows on the South Fork of the Tieton up Bear Creek Mountain. A few weeks ago we took the trail from the...
Hi all, In the New Photos gallery on my pbase site are a collection of shots from over the last month or so. There are Ospreys from Myron Lake, Swainson's...
I put three pictures in a album called dove of a little dove has been hanging around in our lawn near Sun Tides since this morning. It can fly but does so...
It is a morning dove, to me. It may be an immature one, because of its short tail. Probably another fellow auduboner can support the morning dove. ... I put...
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alice creighton
aacr8on@...
Sep 7, 2005 5:43 pm
A rare comment -- I had a chickadee in my sunflowers today. This is a new bird for my back yard list. Heard it first and then it flew right to the ...
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John J. Hebert
jhebert8235@...
Sep 7, 2005 10:24 pm
Forbes magazine just released a list of the 10 safest and 10 least safest US cities. There were 10 natural disaster criteria. It looks like Yakima is a great...
This morning I awoke to 9 Sage Grouse and 11 Gray Partridges in my yard. I have posted a couple of the Sage Grouse at ...
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Jeff Kozma
jeffk@...
Sep 9, 2005 7:29 pm
I was up in the area that burned recently in the Teanaway, Kittitas Co. I was on American Forest Resources land which is gated to the public. But, while in the...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 10, 2005 10:11 pm
Hi Everyone, Ellen noticed a hummingbird at our feeder mid-morning. At lunch we both had a chance to study it closely; it resemvles the adult female depicted...
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John J. Hebert
jhebert8235@...
Sep 10, 2005 11:06 pm
Large numbers (100+) of Violet-green Swallow over the Yakima River. A bewildered immature Sharp-shinned Hawk was harassed by a tiding of magpies. Everywhere...
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Rich712@...
Sep 11, 2005 12:35 am
Scott and Yakkers, I'm guessing that Sage Grouse away from YTC are pretty darn unusual in Yakima County. I would assume that the biologists working for the...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 11, 2005 2:21 am
Hey Rich, Mike Livingston, WDFW biologist and head of the Sage Grouse Working Group knows of these sightings and has been to Scotts's place within the last...
Hi Rich, None of the grouse appear have bands. Two of the nine are noticably larger than the others. This leads me to think that there may be two adult...
Hi Rich, I think Mike said that grouse have been brought in from Oregon and Nevada (Warner Valley). I don't think any were introduced this year, but I may be...
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Rich712@...
Sep 11, 2005 9:12 pm
Chirp, Took a midmorning walk from Sarg Hubbard Park to Sherman Park and back on the Greenway today. Noted a Western Grebe on the far side of Buchanan Lake...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 11, 2005 11:31 pm
Hi All, The Crow Lake Way Trail ascends steeply from the Chinook Pass Highway at 3,400 feet elevation up to the west of Fifes Peak and ends at Raven's Roost. ...
Yakkers, There were 10 Sage Grouse along the YTC (Yakima Training Center) south fence along Mieras Road (gravel section past the end of county road sign) this...
Today, I got to volunteer to take care of injured wildlife. They had a variety of animals. They had quit a few birds. Great Horned owl Burrowing owl Barn owl...
Hi Yakkers, This morning as I was leaving for work, I spotted an immature Nashville Warbler in the cedar tree in our backyard. Yard bird #88! While talking on...
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Scott Downes
downess@...
Sep 13, 2005 10:54 pm
I just learned that the Curlew Sandpiper at Bottle Beach (see tweeters) was seen again this morning between 10:00 and noon at Bottle Beach (between Aberdeen...
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Jeff Kozma
jeffk@...
Sep 14, 2005 3:29 pm
I have had a couple White-crowned Sparrows in the yard since the weekend. Also had an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk surveying the yard from the peak of the ...
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Rich712@...
Sep 14, 2005 11:39 pm
Chirp, YVAS resumed the Wednesday Morning Birdwalks (second and fourth Wed of each month) at the Greenway's Poppoff Trail this morning. Great weather and...
Looks like I can almost ditto Jeff Kozma's yard list for the last few days! New fall arrivals: Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk (he was...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 15, 2005 2:56 pm
Hi All, On my evening hike last night (14 September) I heard the lovely call of Common Poorwills coming from a rocky gulch on Rattlesnake Ridge. I thought I ...
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John J. Hebert
jhebert8235@...
Sep 16, 2005 1:46 am
While the lake gives every indication of emptying before the rains return, there was plenty of great mud today. As I approached the lake I saw 100s of birds at...
Hi Yakkers! Sorry-long time no post. We've had a very busy summer--that's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it. As everyone's been noting, things are picking up...
Oops--my last post was titled "Cooper's hawk..." but as the body of my text says, it was actually a Sharp-shinned hawk. The b.b. magpies looked quite large...
