[Birdnet] RFI Gray-crowned Rosy Finch, etc.

[groushawk at aol.com]

Dear Utah Birders,
 
I will be visiting Utah December 26 through January 1st.  Notwithstanding annual week-long visits for more years than I care to count, I am still looking for some of your harder-to-find winter residents and visitors.  I will be staying in either Provo or Springville, depending on which of my brothers wins - or maybe loses - the coin toss.  I will have a car and will travel in search of birds, although probably not as far as Hyrum.  Any advice you can offer on locations I can visit to improve my odds of finding any of the birds on my wish list would be very much appreciated.
 
Wish list:
 
Long-tailed Duck (Antelope Island Causeway?  They always seem to disappear a week or so before my visit)
Black/White-winged Scoter (Ditto)
Gray Partridge
Ruffed Grouse
Sage Grouse
Glaucous Gull (Are the Bountiful Landfill rules posted at www.utahbirds.org current?)
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Northern Shrike (Antelope Island?)
Gray-crowned Rosy-finch
Pine Grosbeak
Common Redpoll
 
I have been monitoring your very helpful posts on this list, and I have a copy of Birding Utah, by McIvor, and a copy of Birds of Utah County, published by Utah County Birders, but I would love to hear your more recent advice and tips for finding any of these birds.
 
Thanks in advance for your help.
 
James McKay
Mesa, Arizona
480-223-8847
groushawk at aol.com
 
"Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum."  Linnaeus, 1707-1778.
("If you don't know the names, even knowledge of the things themselves will pass away.")  
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