http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/ Yakima Co's birders' email list service Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:34:48 GMT Denny Granstrand http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6748 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6748 Hi Yakkers, I got comments today from Steve Mlodinow and Dennis Paulson about my blackbird photo. Here is what Steve said: "Hard to say anything for certain Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:27:53 GMT Scott Downes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6747 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6747 Kelly, Thanks! If we can get one more person to help out, then 3 people could do a great count and leave Rich time to spend showing people the robins and not Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:06:12 GMT Kelly Kindelspire http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6746 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6746 I will be there, also. From: Scott Downes Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:30 PM To: BirdYak@yahoogroups.com Subject: [BirdYak] Saturday Yakima Robin Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:31:06 GMT Scott Downes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6745 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6745 Yakkers, I'm looking for a couple of volunteers to help myself and Rich on Saturday, Feb. 13 evening to count the robins as the fly to roost. Rich is going to Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:16:44 GMT Denny Granstrand http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6744 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6744 Hi Yakkers, I spent a couple of hours on Marion Drain Road today searching through many, many blackbirds - Red-winged, Brewer's, Brown-headed Cowbirds and Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:53:01 GMT Andy Stepniewski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6743 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6743 Yakkers, Tom Mansfield, Ellen and I birded the Toppenish Creek bottomlands this morning. We studied TUNDRA SWANS and picked out the several immature Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:16:09 GMT STAN BELSHER http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6742 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6742 read M. Knight,s visit We also were there, saw the great horned owl pair but what surprised us was a Barred Owl. It was flushed when we were walking on the Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:21:23 GMT Andy Stepniewski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6741 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6741 Yakkers, We spent the day along Toppenish Creek targeting the Rusty Blackbird reported yesterday by Marv Breece. Kerry Turley was there, too. With three sets Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:25:51 GMT Mac Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6740 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6740 Luke and I went to Fort Simcoe today and found it is overrun with Lewis's woodpeckers. They were everywhere. We also noted killdeer, crows, ravens, a junco Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:08:14 GMT tulimgr http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6739 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6739 Almost every day I drive wide hallow and cottonwood canyon roads on my way home to the tampico area. In the recent past, I have reported a male northern Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:45:34 GMT Denny Granstrand http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6738 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6738 Hi Yakkers, Marv Breece called me this afternoon to report seeing an immature Rusty Blackbird on Marion Drain Road near Lateral C. He said he saw it in a Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:25:27 GMT Andy Stepniewski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6737 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6737 YAKIMA CANYON HIKE 5 FEBRUARY 2010 Yakkers, I spent more time on my hike in the Yakima Canyon today (Noon to 3:30 pm) and cracked 10 species, the first time Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:18:46 GMT Andy Stepniewski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6736 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6736 Now that's a trip report! Thanks Rich, Andy ... From: Rich712@... To: birdyak@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:25 PM Subject: [BirdYak] Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:46:50 GMT tulimgr http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6735 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6735 A few weeks ago I reported a Northern Goshawk perched on the power poll just outside my living room window. I also reported seeing a Bald Eagle flying south Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:26:13 GMT Rich712@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6734 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirdYak/message/6734 Chirp Have you heard the story of the hillside race With eagles and rosy-finches all over the place Well, that story is true, I'm here to say Hiked up Umtanum