Hi Rachael, I was sent a photo of the Prairie Falcon nestlings at Painted Rocks so went to look for them today. We peered into the nest cleft about noon and it...
Yakkers, This evening (10 June) we were driving west on Yakima Ave. and at Gilbert Street noticed a bunch (25+)of Turkey Vultures wheeling in the sky, some ...
Hi Yakkers, I lead my annual woodpecker trip on Saturday, June 11, to the Bethel Ridge area. We managed to tally 9 species of woodpeckers! We started the day...
Yakker's, If you click the link to the"Guerra's Coffee Company", it shows some of Mike Ropers pictures. Elizabeth Bohn Yakima, WA [Non-text portions of this...
Hi Yakkers, Eurasian Collared-Doves were introduced into the Bahamas many years ago. They arrived on their own in Florida in the 1980s, I think. They made...
Yakkers, I spent a couple hours Thursday morning around the yard here in Parker Heights and found there were still a few migrants (Upper Case) to be seen. ...
Does any BirdYakker out there have a metal detector they'd rent or lend to me for part of a day? I'd like to find something I dropped while birding. I have a...
Hi Yakkers, The link below came from an e-mail to the Texbirds list. It is a fascinating video about a German company that made an artificial flying bird. It...
Last Thursday, all three Egrets were next to the road in the pond south of the creek. Thursday was my second sighting of the Bobolinks. They were popping up...
If you're squeamish about county lines, read no further. Common Nighthawks were uncommonly common this afternoon in Yakima Canyon (not County) at the rest area...
I had my first Common Nighthawk for the county for this year at my house yesterday afternoon. Seems about a week late. Has anyone already had them this...
Elizabeth and I just got back from Lateral C and Toppenish Creek. We saw the Bobolink (east side of Lateral C about 200 ft south of the green metal gate). It...
Hi Yakkers, I drove along Lateral C last evening and found one male Bobolink on the east side of the road about 1/4 mile north of Toppenish Creek. As you...
Chirp, At 6:30 pm on Saturday, I received a call from Greg and Elizabeth Bohn. They were on Lateral C just a bit north of Toppenish Creek...from that angle, in...
If anyone wants a flycatcher I.D. challenge, one was spending plenty of time in one area today at Yakima Sportsman State Park. On the trail that leads to the...
Chirp, Just totaled up the results from last week's monitor sheets from the Vredenburgh Bluebird Trail. The nest box trail begins at the end of the pavement...
Hi Yakkers, I got a report of a pair of Prairie Falcons nesting at Painted Rocks, along Hwy 12 on the way to the Gleed area. The nest is apparently at the...
Hi Yakkers, Andy called me to say he talked to a birder from the westside who saw two or three Franklin's Gulls on the north side of the Toppenish NWR on...
I got rained out of my field work today, so I stopped by Lateral C on my way back to Toppenish to see if I could see any Bobolinks. On the east side of ...
Hi Yakkers, I got this e-mail today: "I am not a member as I live in Olympia. On a visit to Yakima last weekend my wife and I watched two enormous white birds...
I guess it's just spring, but until now I've missed birding here this time of year. The winter/spring/summer mix is great. Yesterday we got to see 2 new...
Since both of these species are also common around here, I thought I would forward this interesting account from the southeast Alaska birdsong list today. ...
Yakkers, Tracy (tribal biologist) just reported finding three CANVASBACKS along Pumphouse Rd. in the flooded field just west of the cattle guard and before the...
Check out the latest issue of the Crier on-line at the Yakima Audubon web site. There is one correction. The June Wednesday bird walks are the 9th and the...
Yakkers I spent two hours yesterday afternoon along Lateral A and Pumphouse Road. Birds were everywhere...new for spring was a Yellow-breasted Chat at MP 4.8 ...
