I too was very happy to see that the pair that nested in my yard trees have returned in the last week. Saw them carrying sticks for repair, and mating on the...
Coming back from the lower valley on I-82 we saw 2 large white birds, I'm assuming were Great Egrets, perched low in trees on the east side of I-82 just before...
Pictures of the oddly colored Cassin's Finch seen in Nile on April 22 can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/22949601@N08/ Bill and Nancy LaFramboise ...
Hello Yakkers, Our male kestrel brought a prospective new mate to check out his digs. She was beautiful - mostly white. She took one look and went back to ...
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Rich712@...
May 4, 2009 4:37 am
Chirp, Added a new yard bird when a House Wren dropped in today. It made a pass up and down the side of a suspended wooden black oil sunflower feeder (Larry...
International Migratory Bird Day at Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge Are you interested in birds? Would you like to enjoy a nice morning at your refuge? Just...
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Michael Martin
SelahLibraryGuy@...
May 4, 2009 3:14 pm
This weekend, after running some errands, as I drove down our long driveway, I came across a killdeer, walking, that just walked out of the way. About fifteen...
About 4 least sandpipers showed up today at the cowiche wastewater treatment plant. These sandpipers appeared about this time last year and hatched a number of...
I've reported a number of times on the eurasian collared doves hanging out in my neighborhood and backyard. For the last week, the doves have been making quite...
I was up in the Nile area yesterday and heard my first Townsend's Warbler singing along Nile Creek in the tall Douglas-firs and also had many Hammond's...
It was a good day in the wetland at the cowiche wastewater plant. Two pairs of yellow headed blackbirds appear to be mating and might stick around and nest....
Hi All, I'm planning to go to Dixie to photograph Tom Lamb's hummingbirds Saturday 5/23/09. When I was there in 9/2008 he told me to come back in May when the ...
One of the visitors to my recently ejected feeder near Suntides has been a rb nuthatch. I hadn't expected a nuthatch. I thought they were more of hunter of...
Hi Yakkers We saw our first N.Oriole and Black-chinned Hummingbird of the year here-May 7th. The pair of Eurasian collared Doves are still here,too. We can see...
Is the whole valley overrun with GC sparrows? I thought I'd just been attracting them latey to a feeder, but today I also found them in elms at the fringes of...
When I followed a pair of turkey vultures flying into a stand of trees along the Naches River, and then saw a third vulture with juvenile head coloring...
I usually see one or two golden crowns come through in the spring but last night I counted 12 in the yard? around the various feeders.? Other transients in the...
Well, I finally saw my first American Avocets in WA. Two were foraging along the backside of the flooded pasture/corral located along Pumphouse Road about...
We are being swamped by Ravens. We usually see large numbers of Ravens farther away, but not this time. There were 30 flying around a few days ago near us....
Yesterday afternoon when I was returning home I saw a Vulture cruising overhead near the west end of Clark Rd where it meets with Lombard Loop in Sawyer....
I've also had at least 3 GCS's hanging around for several days with the White crowns. I usually only see one once in a while. Also a Pine Siskin, the only one...
Last week it was golden crowned sparrows, this week it's a wave of western tanagers. I walked into a flock of 10 yesterday along Buckskin Slough. Fewer today....
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Mansfield, Tom
tom.mansfield@...
May 14, 2009 3:53 am
I had several Western Tanager late this afternoon moving through the Yakima Arboretum and a small flock of vireos that included Warbling and Cassin's. A lone...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
May 15, 2009 2:58 am
Hi All, The Yakima Valley Audubon Society annual Birdathon is May 16 (Midnight to Midnight) with the following groups heading out to cover Yakima County. Here...
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Andy Stepniewski
steppie@...
May 15, 2009 7:31 pm
Yakkers, Yesterday (14 May) about 4 pm I watched a Cooper's Hawk dive bomb and harass a Red-tailed Hawk for several minutes in the air space above our home...
I was out in the upland forest adjacent to the Middle Fork Ahtanum Creek today and heard my first Olive-sided Flycatcher of the year today. Also of note was a...
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Scott Downes
downess@...
May 15, 2009 11:53 pm
I was doing the Klickitat County NAMC last Saturday and in areas near Bickleton had a calling Wood Pewee and an Olive-sided doing its "Pip" call. Hopefully...
Oh - exciting! We have a Western Tanager hanging out in the back yard right now. Bruce said he saw it yesterday too, but didn't get as good a look at it....
