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Buy A Print SANDY SUMMERS/YHR Doves released during the National Anthem fly in front of the flag at a memorial service at Yakima's Millennium Plaza in memory of those killed in the terrorist attack on New York City on September 11, 2001.



Buy A Print SANDY SUMMERS/YHR A Bald Eagle spreads his wings in flight as he soars past trees along the Yakima River. According to the Audubon Society the number of birds wintering in Yakima County is at an all-time high.



Buy A Print SANDY SUMMERS/YHR Elk at the Oak Creek Feeding Station. The elk are descendants of a herd of 50 animals puchased in the 1940s to re-introduce the species to Central Washington.



Buy A Print ROY MUSITELLI/YHR A flock of migrating mallards take to the skies at the Toppenish Wildlife Refuge.



Buy A Print GORDON KING/YHR A mother owl, a mouse in her mouth, pauses on a branch before feeding the mouse to her offspring, right, perched several feet away in thick branches.



Buy A Print BRIAN FITZGERALD/YHR Two large rooms in the pigeon loft, located behind a classroom building at Eagle Alternative School in Toppenish, currently hold 29 young and 23 "old" racing pigeons. A typical race could be from 75 miles to 600 miles and is completed in less than a day.



Buy A Print BRIAN FITZGERALD/YHR A wild duck stretches his wings in the early-morning mists covering the waters of a former gravel pit on a chilly fall morning.