http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/ LCBirds Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:30:18 GMT Kris Keating http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1407 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1407 Was just sitting out in the yard and realized there were about 30 pelicans riding the updraft over my place out here in Finley.  Cool! Kris (By Hover Road) Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:25:56 GMT Lisa Hill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1406 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1406 Hi all, We have a male Rufuous Hummingbird in the yard this morning. Maybe it's possible to summon a favorite bird. "If you paint it, they will come." I had Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:15:58 GMT Bill and Nancy LaFramboise http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1405 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1405 The third session of this year's MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) banding station was a bit more active than last session. In total we Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:29:40 GMT Heidi Newsome http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1404 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1404 We had a great crew of folks out to do a blitz on Umatilla Refuge McCormack Unit - we were searching for burrowing owl sites, but also recorded all the birds Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:59:38 GMT larryumthun http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1403 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1403 I posted a couple of pictures of a male and female Bullock's Oriole. You can see them in Larry's pictures. Larry Umthun Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:44:20 GMT tgreager http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1402 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1402 While outside changing a sprinkler on Father's Day I happened upon a singing Black-throated Gray Warbler in the backyard of my home in the NE corner of Rancho Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:49:01 GMT Bill and Nancy LaFramboise http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1401 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1401 On the way home from the MAPS banding station today, 4 birders stopped at a few areas between the station and McNary Headquarters. At the Walla Walla River Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:54:44 GMT larryumthun http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1400 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1400 I have posted two new pictures in Larry's Pictures. One is of juvenile Ferruginous Hawks and the other is of a Mountain Bluebird. Larry Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:43:27 GMT Bill and Nancy LaFramboise http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1399 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1399 Yesterday a group of birders took a walk in WE Johnson Park. Among the expected breeding birds (Lazuli Bunting, Yellow-breasted Chat, Black-headed Grosbeak, Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:59:48 GMT Ron & Carole Louderback http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1398 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1398 Photos of possible Warbling Vireo taken on So. Fork Coppei Creek Rd, Walla Walla Co. are posted on our site. I had heard one before but not seen one so would Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:16:05 GMT heidi_newsome http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1397 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1397 So - this is a bit late - we ran the "Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship" (MAPS for short) banding station at McNary refuge last Thursday morning, Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:34:03 GMT mikeguthrie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1396 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1396 I went to Bickleton today and found about 100 bluebirds in the area (mostly South of town). I posted a male and female in the photo's section. Mike Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:12:50 GMT mikeguthrie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1395 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1395 I was fishing yesterday on the Pend Oreille river near Usk and heard and spotted a few bobolinks from the boat. Also I saw some western tanagers. The Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:17:22 GMT janinatw http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1394 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1394 Leslie, Try Western Kingbird, too. It sounds more like what you are describing. -jb. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Western_Kingbird/sounds Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:02:53 GMT janinatw http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1393 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCBirds/message/1393 I just listened to the Robin on the Cornell site: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Robin/sounds sounds a bit squeaky. -jeanne b.