also if you are very close and/or have a good scope, you will notice that drakes have a curled tail feather (the drake feather) also the voice of the male's is...
One of my domestic mallards is a wild one that a gal found when he was just hatched , he was raised in the house with a dog as a partner . when the gal got...
ty604di@...
Sep 2, 2006 7:18 pm
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This afternoon I had a single Northern Goshawk circling over my house, followed a couple of minutes later by three Sharp-shinned Hawks. They were all moving...
I had a Lincoln's Sparrow in the yard this past weekend on Saturday and Sunday. Jeff Kozma Yakima (Terrace Heights) [Non-text portions of this message have...
Jeff Kozma
jeffk@...
Sep 6, 2006 6:32 pm
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Hi All, I spent 15 minutes in our garden in Parker Heights this morning and saw an interesting collection of birds: Anna's Hummingbird - 1, here nearly a month...
Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 7, 2006 1:08 am
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Hi Yakkers, My wife and I spent the weekend in Grayland. I went to Bottle Beach three times. Saturday morning when I got there at about 11:00, two guys...
Chirp, An afternoon appointment in the Wenas mandated a visit to the local pond, or so I told my wife. Well, actually the appointment was in downtown Selah...
Rich712@...
Sep 8, 2006 12:52 am
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Hello all, I am in the process of making a website over birding routes and trails. If you know of one, and they have a website, could you please send me a ...
Hi Rich and Yakkers, I was there yesterday between 2 and 3 PM on way back from work, 9/7, and saw 3 Spotted Sandpipers and 3 Wilson's Snipe. Most were along...
Jeff Kozma
jeffk@...
Sep 8, 2006 3:58 pm
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Chirp, A sparrow like bird hopping through the grasses that pass for lawn in my backyard this morning caught my eye. Initially, I thought it might be a ...
Rich712@...
Sep 11, 2006 10:19 pm
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I have seen 4 merlins in the past 3 days near my house outside of grandview. 2 were blacks, and the other 2 were taigas. all 4 were seen in the early morning....
Hi Yakkers, I have some new photos in the new photos folder on my website: * several of a Pectoral Sandpiper the YVAS field trip found Sunday at Perch Point...
Hi Yakkers. I was waiting to see if Andy had his birdlist on the computer, but since I am an eager beaver I decided to post my list from the trip. Andy, you...
COLUMBIA BASIN SHOREBIRDING 10 SEPTEMBER 2006 Fourteen Yakima Auduboners and guests trekked east into the Columbia Basin to search out shorebirds (numbered...
As I drove past the open fields south of the airport, I saw waves of sparrows crossing the road and sitting on the fence wires. Given the numbers I presumed...
John J. Hebert
jhebert8235@...
Sep 14, 2006 10:53 pm
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN PARKER HEIGHTS 16 SEPTEMBER 2006 Inspired by the recent article on Backyard Birding in the Yakima Herald-Republic (by Tracy Sawyer,...
Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 16, 2006 10:27 pm
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Hi All, I made a leisurely start to the day by birding in our yard in Parker Heights, noting most of the species I reported yesterday, including Anna's...
Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 18, 2006 3:12 am
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Chirp, Had a call this evening from Fred Ericksen who lives near Sawyer. Around 7:15 pm today, Fred estimated two to three hundred Vaux's Swifts descended...
Rich712@...
Sep 18, 2006 3:37 am
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Chirp, John H. and I were out the other day traveling along a somewhat dubious facsimile of a dirt road southwest of Granger when we noted a group of 15 or so ...
Rich712@...
Sep 19, 2006 4:50 am
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Hi All, I reported one male Anna's Hummingbirds chasing another hummer around our yard Saturday ( 16 September). We now can say there ate two male Anna's here,...
Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 19, 2006 3:16 pm
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Hi All, On the Yakima Training Center in the fall of 1997 I observed quite a number of Northern Flickers. Along upper Cold Creek, I tallied 18 on 19 September...
Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
Sep 19, 2006 3:26 pm
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Saw my first Western Grebe of the fall today swimming on the large lake on the west side of I-82 just before the Toppenish offramp. Jeff Kozma Yakima [Non-text...
Jeff Kozma
jeffk@...
Sep 19, 2006 11:45 pm
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Hi Yakkers, I just saw a Black Swift fly over my yard and head southeast over the pasture on the south side of my yard. I had been working (yes, working) at my...
after school today, I was driving th 4-wheeler down the canal bank near our farm, and counted well over 2 dozen flickers within a quarter mile stretch I also...
Hi Yakkers. I just got home from the greenway an hour ago. I hardly saw any birds. As I was walking down the path, I saw a flock of domestic geese in the...
Hi Yakkers, I just saw a Dark-eyed Junco in the cedar tree in my backyard, the first in my yard this fall. Also in the yard this morning were five Lincoln's...
I had a flock of 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglets and 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet in the yard this weekend. I was also at Sarg Hubbard Park this weekend training my dog in...
Jeff Kozma
jeffk@...
Sep 25, 2006 4:10 pm
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Hello Yakkers, We have seen the following birds in our yard today: Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Juncos White-crowned Sparrows Spotted...
Chirp, I trekked through the Wenas Lake mud once again this afternoon. Following the creek down from the boat launch, I flushed a single American Pipit. ...
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