Hi Yakkers,

In December three Anna's Hummingbirds were spending time at feeders
at a house on 53rd Ave. north of Englewood in Yakima.  One was an
adult male, which disappeared about Dec. 14.  The two immatures died
in the yard during the intense cold spell at the end of December.

I got an e-mail from the people today, with seven photos attached,
saying an adult male Anna's is back at their feeders.  Hard to tell
if it is the same one as in December.

Denny Granstrand
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Hi Yakkers,

I left home yesterday morning intending to scout the Yakima River
Canyon and Kittitas Valley for my field trip on March 14.  Instead I
ended up in Othello.  On the way, just north of Wanapum Dam I saw six
LONG-TAILED DUCKS and got photos of a pair which has been reported
near the dam for over a week.

In Othello three WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS have been spending time at
the cemetery.  I joined Bill and Nancy LaFramboise from Kennewick in
searching for them.  Bill found the male and Nancy found two females
feeding in a spruce tree.  The male joined them a few minutes
later.  They posed nicely for photos.

As I drove along Road 15.1 west of Othello on the way to Royal Lake,
I found SANDHILL CRANES in a cornfield.  As I watched them and took
photos, many more landed in the field.

There has been a ROSS'S GOOSE with many, many Canada and Cackling
Geese on Royal Lake west of Othello.  As I walked onto the
observation deck overlooking the lake, a good-sized flock of
TAVERNER'S CACKLING GEESE took flight and the Ross's Goose joined
them.  I got one good photo of it in flight.  It landed on the lake
well out of photo range.

Photos of the ducks, crossbills, cranes and other highlights are in
the new photos folder on my website.

Denny Granstrand
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We have a flock of about 13 waxwings.  I noticed one was quite a bit tanner than
the others.  The dark red under tail feathers were a sort of rusty red color.  I
think that one is a Bohemian waxwing.  There was also a flock of about 15 flying
in a pattern around our neighborhood.

We live at 7001 Perry Court in Valley Estates.  The birds are in a large maple
in the house behind us.

Sherrel Hailstone

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2008 List and Big Day Reports are available on the Washington Birder website.
You will find them at: http://www.wabirder.com/online.html



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Hi Yakkers,

About ten minutes ago I was sitting at my computer desk talking to
Andy about the upcoming waterfowl class at the arboretum, when a
Great Horned Owl sailed past the window on the east side of the house
and landed in the pine tree that is fifteen feet south of the
southeast corner of the house.  It was at eye level fifteen feet away
from me.  Unfortunately, there was no way to get a photo of it.  If I
had opened a window, it probably would have flown away.  As it was,
when I finally tried to get a photo of it from the backyard, it flew
away, headed east.

It was an upclose view of a beautiful bird!

Yesterday after I chased the waxwings that Sherrel Hailstone
reported.  I saw a group of about fifteen Cedars with one Bohemian in
it.  No photos there, either.

Denny Granstrand
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Hi Yakkers

I heard singing W.Meadowlarks here this morning! "Our" Red-tailed Hawk is
sitting on her nest as of March 2nd.

Debie  Brown
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I stopped by the viewing grounds near Suntides both last night at 5:13 PM in the
rain and tonight at 5:30 in clear weather and saw hundreds of robins flying in
from the northwest, most of them at a much higher elevation than during the
Great Backyard Bird Count and in lesser numbers than during the GBBC but still
at the rate of many hundreds per minute! It is truly a spectacle. My coworker
who lives next to the viewing grounds sees the robins leaving the trees in the
mornings beginning at 5 AM and flying north.

Vera, reporting from Galloway and Old Naches Highway near Suntides


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Hi Yakkers,

I received this e-mail this morning.  I am hoping that manyof you
will be interested in helping keep Sportsman State Park open.

Denny Granstrand


>Subject: Yakima Sportsman State Park in Desperate Need!
>Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:39:48 -0800
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>Did you know that almost all State Parks in Central Washington State
>are about to be closed?
>Supporters of Yakima Sportsman State Park need your help, the time
>is critical and the time is now!
>My name is Al, and I am a concerned citizen and volunteer for the
>park . You won't hear about this from paid park staff, because the
>State regulations prohibit their involvement in political matters or
>any contact with Legislators.
>Please read on:
>
>Some disturbing news is filtering down the gossip pipe. We knew last
>month that 13 state parks were being closed, but Yakima Sportsman was spared.
>Today, we learned that 33 additional State Parks are on a new list
>to choose 23 more to close or mothball! (And Yakima Sportsman is on
>that list.) If you know your state legislator (or even if you don't)
>we need your help to flood them with letters or e-mails. I am also
>attaching a letter for general circulation. If you will please,
>forward to all your friends.
>
>Al Allaway, Volunteer Trails and Interpretive Coordinator,
>Yakima Sportsman State Park
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My dog and I finished our walks late the past few evenings.
We finished after sunset, around 6:30 PM. As we neared the end
of the walk at the South end of the Greenway, I hear the
distinctive call of a Western Screech Owl and saw it fly both
nights.

This has been quite a year for owls, with Great Horned, Barn,
and Long Eared (only once) seen in my backyard just south
of the Yakima airport.

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I was up in Ellensburg this afternoon and came back via the Canyon Road.  There
is a large pond on the left (west) side of the canyon road as you leave E-burg
and I briefly saw about 8-10 Violet-green Swallows flycatching over the pond in
the middle of falling snow.  It was quite a sight!  These are the first
violet-greens I have seen this year but haven't seen any in Yakima County
yet..but keep your eyes open.

Jeff Kozma

Yakima

Collared doves have been missing from my backyard on west chestnut since about
last october. An interesting pair showed up yesterday. One had the typical
color, the other was almost albino, but had very light redish-brown mottling. It
was the same size as the normal dove by its side, just a different color. I have
a photo if anyone is interested in taking a look.


Joe in yakima

Hi All,

This weekend the Waxwings finally came though to attack the Mountain Ash
berries. First was a group of Bohemians, followed later by Cedars. There are
still berries left so hopefully they will return before the Robins get them all.

Also a few Sandhill Crane photos from a quick trip to Othello yesterday.

George Vlahakis

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Hi Yakkers,

After the waterfowl class yesterday, Jim Christensen told me he saw
what he thought was a hybrid Mallard X Gadwall at Randall Park.  I
stopped by on my way home and found it after a long search through
all of the Mallards and mallard-mutts.  I compared my photos of it to
photos I found on-line and I think Jim is right.  One of my photos of
it is in the new photos folder on my website, along with a pure
Mallard for comparison.  There quite a variety of mallard-mutts at
Randall Park to sort through to find this hybrid duck.

A Eurasian Wigeon showed up at Randall Park last year toward the end
of April.  Randall Park is a great place to bird - check out ducks,
walk the boardwalk at the north end of the park, search for
woodpeckers in the pines on the south side of the park, and the
willows along the creek on the south side almost always have birds in them.

Denny Granstrand
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This is a bird I have not seen in our yard before.  I uploaded it to a file
called Sherrel Hailstone on Birdyak.  It's not nearly as dark as the fox sparrow
we had.  The white eye stripes, white throat, with dot in center of breast look
the most like a song sparrow.  If someone out there who is familiar with these
little guys and can help me identify it, I'd sure appreciate it.  Thanks
Sherrel Hailstone

Well, I may not rival the number of birds that fly into Suntides but I had a
record number of robins in my yard tonight.? I have three mountain ash trees and
usually the robin and cedar waxwings clean them up during the late fall and
winter.? However, with a bumper crop of berries last year I had one tree that
was hardly touched.?They are getting cleaned up now!? I counted 68 robins in?my
yard.? There were another 30 in the tree across the road and a direct fly path
to and from the tree to my yard.??

Cheerilee....Cheerilo!

Bev
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On Monday, I went out to Goldendale Road off of Pumphouse Road near HWY 97
during my lunch hour.  Birds of interest included one Loggerhead Shrike and then
5 Violet-green Swallows foraging over the marsh.  Lots of ducks around but
nothing else of major interest.

Jeff Kozma

Yakima

Cheerily cheer-up cheerio,

Last week, Vera posted that robins were still flying into the  Suntides
roost.

Prior to a YVAS board meeting last night, Elizabeth Bohn and I
visited the Suntides area.  At 6:40 the robins were arriving in  droves,
most coming in from the west between Maple Road and the bluffs
of Naches Heights.  Wind seemed to be driving the birds lower  and
inhospitable clouds on Cleman Mountain may have routed the robins
further south than "usual,"

We have switched to Daylight Savings Time since Vera's visit last
week.  So, for those whose day job prevented them from going out
to Suntides before sunset, DST and longer daylight hours give you
an opportunity you shouldn't refuse.  With sunset now at 7:00  pm,
consider a trip...below is a plug I posted on Feb 6.

It truly is a spectacle of sorts. To fully grasp the magnitude of  the
flights,one has to watch for at least fifteen minutes. Amazing how
the hundreds of birds overhead are replaced by tiny dots materializing
in the distant sky - again and again.

And be aware that "flocks" of  Robins are far different than our stereotyped
images of bird flocks. Geese  and Cranes fly close together in lines or
Vs. Blackbirds and European  Starlings fly in tight balls as do shorebirds.
A flock of five hundred  Starlings probably isn't much larger than a medium
sized U-Haul rental truck.  And (perhaps due to their socialistic European
bent) they seem to fly a  single unit...as if Lieutenant Sulu is at the center
of the flock controlling  the wings of each Starling as the Europrise cruises
the sky. The black ball  rises, falls, and turns as a unit.

Not so with Robins. Remember these are  American Robins, free thinking
and free flying independent cusses demanding  ample personal space. A
flock of 500 Robins will come at you in a front  several hundred yards wide,
a hundred yards deep and 40 yards high. The  flocks pulse...higher/lower
and north to south. And should an individual or  two decide to drop to the
ground, they do so with impunity.

Every bird  watcher should try to make it out to view this phenomenon. Turn
north from  the stop light at Highway 12 and the Old Naches Highway and
go about a  quarter of a mile to the fire station; turn east on Galloway and
then  immediately south on Courtland...a paved cul-de-sac with absolutely
zero  homes. View the flights for a short while and then duck into the
nearby  residential areas along Galloway close to sunset to catch the
Robins  squeezing into conifers for the night.


Later,
Rich
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What a glorious day!

Bright sun shine and newly arrived Tree Swallows
chattering overhead along the Greenway.

John Hebert
Yakima, WA

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Chirp,

Four Yakima Valley Audubon Society toured the Poppoff Trail area at
the south end of the Greenway this morning.

Beautiful sunny day but just a bit cold at the start.  No major  discoveries,
four regular walkers viewing and being viewed by 28 regular bird  species.

Near mile marker 6, we crossed a beaver dam and counted 14 Great
Blue Herons on or near nests at the rookery well east of the pathway.
A pair of Gadwall were present on a hidden pond accessed from that
location.

Thrush numbers were up with at least 45 American Robins plying the
ground as the temperature rose; a single Hermit Thrush was near the
parking lot.  Cedar Waxwings (16) were visiting Russian Olives and
trees that have budded out.

Next walk will be on March 26 at 9:00 am, everyone is welcome to
join us.

A total of 28 species for the day.
Location:     Poppoff Trail weekly and personal  walks
Observation date:     3/12/09
Notes:   Sunny, light breeze, cold 34 rising to 45
All ponds open  water
Number of species:     28

Canada Goose   14
Wood Duck     2
Gadwall      2
Mallard     10
Northern Shoveler      19
Common Merganser     2
California Quail   7
Great Blue Heron     15
Red-tailed  Hawk     3
American Coot     1
Mourning  Dove     2
Downy Woodpecker     7
Northern  Flicker     9
Black-billed Magpie      1
Violet-green Swallow     2
Black-capped Chickadee   6
Bewick's Wren     3
Hermit Thrush   1
American Robin     45
European  Starling     17
Cedar Waxwing      17
Yellow-rumped Warbler     8
Song Sparrow   7
White-crowned Sparrow     22
Dark-eyed  Junco     2
Red-winged Blackbird     7
House  Finch     2
American Goldfinch      1

This report was generated automatically by eBird

Later,
Rich
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It's beginning to look like spring. A Bewick's Wren was packing nest
material yesterday on the bird walk and some of the Goldfinches are well on
their way to breeding plumage at my feeder. Here's a few new photos.
Mike Roper

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It's beginning to look like spring. A Bewick's Wren was packing nest
material yesterday on the bird walk and some of the Goldfinches are well on
their way to breeding plumage at my feeder. Here's a few new photos.
Mike Roper

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Unlike airplanes, at least the standard format airplanes, birds don't have a
vertical tail surface. In airplanes the vertical tail surfaces, or fin and
rudder, controls yaw attitude, the left or right rotation, horizontal relative
to the bird.  I suppose birds get some yaw stability by having a horizontal tail
surface that is cupped downward so it presents some vertical area like the V
tail of a Beech S35, but inverted.

When watching a large soaring bird, like a Buteo or eagle, you can see the bird
twisting its tail a little left or right, skillfully catching thermals to stay
aloft with little effort. I suppose that a bird trying to soar efficiently in
rising air might skid around a turn to minimize bank and keep left vectors
pointing upward. I've been told that this tail twisting is the bird's rudder
inputs. But I've always wondered which direction. Say you see the tail twist
left, that is left side down, right side up. Is that a left rudder or a right
rudder control input?

While coming out of the vet's office today with my pooch, a Merlin landed at the
top of a birch tree at 48th and Nob Hill in Yakima.  Then, on the way home, I
saw a Townsend's Solitaire sitting at the top of a spruce tree right near the
corner of N. Sky Vista and Roza Hill Dr. in Terrace Heights.

Jeff Kozma

Yakima (Terrace Heights)

Hi Yakkers--I was so privileged today to be able to hook up with Yakima
Audubon's tour of our valley.  We saw lots of bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, and
rough-legged hawks. The nesting great-horned owls just around the corner from my
house were very cooperative too. Thanks for letting me tag along! I know I
haven't been too diligent about posting lately--I'll try to do better--Deborah
on the Brick Mill Rd north of Kittitas

Hi Yakkers and Kittitas County birders,

I led a Yakima Valley Audubon field trip to Kittitas County yesterday
and did some scouting for it Friday.  The differences in the two days
were disappointing.

Near the Yakima/Kittitas County line in the Yakima Canyon there is a
large basalt cliff on the west side of the river.  Friday a Golden
Eagle cruised back and forth in front of the cliff before setting
down on a prominent perch to relax.  The view of the eagle, while
distant, was exciting.  Saturday -- no eagle but there were five
bighorn sheep working their way through the rocks.  Four of them
seemed less than excited to be there.  The leader simply charged ahead.

At the Rosa rec area north of the dam on Friday two Great Horned Owls
hooted back and forth.  Saturday, no owls, but we did find two
Red-breasted Nuthatches and two Bewick's Wrens.

We did find five or six Bald Eagles on our drive through the canyon,
two of which posed nicely for us.

At the Mill Pond along SR 821 south of Ellensburg Friday I found a
male Eurasian Wigeon with about a dozen American Wigeons.  The
Eurasian Wigeon was still there yesterday when we pulled up but it
flew off before anyone else in the group saw it.  We stopped by there
on the way home at about 4:30 pm but it hadn't returned.

Mill Pond did have a Say's Phoebe and many Violet-green Swallows.  We
also found a Say's Phoebe in the front yard of a house on Ringer Road.

We met Deb Essman behind the restaurants just north of I-90 and
scoped the pond there.  Seven swans flew over as we were driving
up.  We weren't able to identify them.  On the pond were a scattering
of ducks including on male Ruddy Duck already in breeding plumage.

We followed Deb to a pond near the west interchange where Friday she
had seen Hooded Mergansers.  There was a pair of Mallards on the pond
yesterday but no hoodies.

Deb led us on a tour of the famlands north and east of Ellensburg
searching for raptors.  She knew the route well.  We saw about ten
Red-tailed Hawks, four or five Rough-legged Hawks, one Golden Eagle
and at least 30 Bald Eagles.  We also enjoyed nice views of the Great
Horned Owls nesting at the corner of Brick Mill Road and 81 Road.

We left Deb and headed toward Vantage on the Old Vantage Hwy.  At the
Quilomene Wildlife Area we were able to call up one Sage Sparrow,
which seemed rather shy.

Vantage and the river south to the dam were fairly quiet.  It seems
like most of the ducks have headed north.  We did watch a Horned
Grebe trying to swallow a small fish right in the Vantage marina.  It
had a difficult time, which made us think the fish might have had a
hook in it.

There are two ponds on the north side of I-90 just east of the
Olmstead Place State Park.  As we cruised by on the freeway, we
noticed four or five swams and about 30 Snow Geese.

Denny Granstrand
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This  morning at my house on w. chestnut ave., I had a brief observation of what
appeared to be a very nervous female house sparrow. Looking at it through binos
for about 15 seconds before it flew off, I noticed a distinct white throat
patch, but no yellow patches in the corner of the eyes. Looking at the cornell
web site, the closest I could identify it was a tan line white throated sparrow.
Like I said, it didn't really look or move like a female house sparrow. 
Anyone's thoughts on this sighting would be appreciated.

joe in yakima

I was up beyond the water tower near Terraced Estates. On the south facing
slope I saw 2 groups of at least 10 Mountain Bluebirds. I've never seen any
in the Terrace Heights area before. I'm sure it was just a migration
stopover. Come to think of it I've never seen that many together before and
me with no camera.

Mike Roper



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Chirp,

Late this afternoon, there was an adult gull swirling over the  WalMart
parking lot just west of Sarg Hubbard Park.  I'm guessing  Ring-billed
based on small size and light gray mantle but I did not have my bins
with me.

I checked The Birds of Yakima County; Andy notes that Ring-billed
once were only seen as spring (March) and fall (late July) migrants
prior to 1990.  Since that time, the have become "ubiquitous"  through-
out the summer via daily commutes to and from Priest Rapids Lake.

I just wonder if March sightings could still be of the migrant flow  of
the pre-90s?  Did/do gulls migrate from the Columbia River to the
Coast every year?

Later,
Rich
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Hi Richard and Yakkers,

I think we will be seeing fewer gulls in the Yakima area in the
future (starting last year) because of changes at the Terrace Heights
Landfill.  The gulls used to visit the landfill to feed.  They would
fly back to their nests along Priest Rapids to feed their
young.  Until last year, the landfill was an open dump.  People would
drive their pickups up to the dump site and unload.  After the piles
got large enough, landfill workers would push the piles into trunches
with bulldozers, then cover the trash up with dirt.

The dumping is now done at a transfer station, then trucked to the
dump site.  It is quickly buried, which doesn't give any birds time
to pick through the trash for food.  It won't take long for the gulls
to learn that they need to find a new place to fill up.  This might
even reduce the number of gulls breeding at Priest Rapids.  It might
deserve some study in the next few years to see how changes at the
landfill have affected the gull population at Priest Rapids.

Denny Granstrand
Reminating from southwest of the Yakima Airport

At 09:16 PM 3/17/2009, you wrote:

>Chirp,
>
>Late this afternoon, there was an adult gull swirling over the WalMart
>parking lot just west of Sarg Hubbard Park. I'm guessing Ring-billed
>based on small size and light gray mantle but I did not have my bins
>with me.
>
>I checked The Birds of Yakima County; Andy notes that Ring-billed
>once were only seen as spring (March) and fall (late July) migrants
>prior to 1990. Since that time, the have become "ubiquitous" through-
>out the summer via daily commutes to and from Priest Rapids Lake.
>
>I just wonder if March sightings could still be of the migrant flow of
>the pre-90s? Did/do gulls migrate from the Columbia River to the
>Coast every year?
>
>Later,
>Rich
>Befuddled Birder by 3700 Bonnie Boone

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Hi Yakkers,

Yesterday I did a home inspection on Landon Ave. about three blocks
south of Nob Hill Blvd.  There was a Eurasian Collared-Dove sitting
on the telephone wire above the side fence when I got there.  This is
in the same neighborhood where I saw three last spring.

Late this afternoon when I got home, there was one sitting on the
power line over our back yard, very close to the house.  I got
several photos of it but it will be a day or two before I can get one
onto my website.

Denny Granstrand
Southwest of the Yakima airport
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