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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
What a glorious day! Bright sun shine and newly arrived Tree Swallows chattering overhead along the Greenway. John Hebert Yakima, WA [Non-text portions of this...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 Konnowac Pass Moxee, WA...
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...
2008 List and Big Day Reports are available on the Washington Birder website. You will find them at: http://www.wabirder.com/online.html Ken Knittle Vancouver...
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....
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...
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,...
Yakkers, If you have any checklists compiled during the Feb 13-16 Great Backyard Bird Count that you have not yet submitted, please be aware that the deadline...
There have been numerous reports of cedar waxings lately. Today, I was at Border Books and had the opportunity to count 87 cedar waxwings in the ornamental...
On Wednesday while heading over to Olympia, I saw 3 Eurasian Collared Doves sitting on a wire along HWY 12 in Naches and then saw my first Lewis' Woodpecker of...
Yakkers, Seattle birder Paul Cozens has been in Toppenish this week working and we were able to bird Pumphouse Road west from Toppenish to Fort Simcoe for a ...
Yakkers, A lone Bohemian Waxwing was perched with about 25 Cedars atop a cottonwood in our yard Monday morning. From time to time it and the Cedars would ...
Hi Yakkers, This e-mail came from Tweeters this evening. Its a riot! I hope you enjoy it. If not, you can blame Jeff. Denny Granstrand ... * * * * * *...
