[Birdnet] Report from Nibley, Cache Co

[Connie McManus]

- From the marshes and farmed fields in Nibley, Cache Co (1/4 mile south of
my house) on 5 Aug I counted the following:
Song Sparrows   3
Sandhill Cranes    3 (in flight)
Mourning doves   16
Barn swallows   24
Marsh Wrens 4
Yellow Headed black birds 31 (males)
Red Wing Black Birds 20 males, 12 females
American goldfinches  3
western Meadowlark 2 (1 seen, 1 heard)
Ring-necked pheasants 2 (1 male, 1 female)
golden eagle  1 (I named him "Cliff", he's a neighborhood regular)
Red Tailed Hawk  2
Mystery Bird. 1  see note #1


- from my yard:
Broad tailed hummingbirds, 2 (both females, I thing)
barn swallows   14 (see note #2  below)
Bullocks Orioles:  7 (adult males and females and juvies)
House finches:  8 (7 females, 1 male)
American goldfinches:  5 (3  males, 2 females)
Black-billed Magpie   3
European Starlings   17
Red tailed Hawk   2 (likely the same as counted above)
Mourning doves   11
House sparrows   approx. 15
American Kestrels 4
white faced Ibis   87
Westen King birds  20  (see Note 3)
Lazuli Bunting, 1 male (from 8/2/07 escaping the fire on the mountain side)

Note 1:  (MYSTERY BIRD)I believe, but am not absolutely certain yet, that
this is either a female or a juvie bobolink.  The picks by Kent Keller on
Utah Birds photo gallery look exactly like the  bird  perched on the fence
post.  I continue to seek it out to get a photo for ya'll to see and tell me
what you think.

Note 2:  (SWALLOW COUNTS )  This number is a drastic decrease in the number
of swallows from years past.  While this is the first year I've counted
birds, the swallows have always been a big feature in our yard.  We've had
as many as 5 nests built on our house, all producing several young and the
power lines would be filled with them.   Sometimes you could hardly walk to
the car without getting dived-bombed.  this year there has been only 1 nest
and a scant

NOTE 3:  The Western Kingbirds seem to be gone.   They were everywhere, but
there are  no songs or sitings of any of them.  It seems that they, too, are
smaller in number than in past years.  this year, we had 3 nests in our yard
and the trees across the street had 4 nests that I notice, while last year
there seemed to be about 2X that many.  The number of birds perched on
telephone poles and power lines was definitely greater than this year, my
guess being about 30 -40 birds.

AND...

On July 6, 2007, Bear Lake, Rich County

Thayer's ? gull   20
Semipalmated plover  2
Hudsonian Godwit 9
Marbled Godwit 8
Yellow Headed Black birds 13

Looking forward to the migrations!
-- 
Connie McManus
Nibley, Cache County, Utah
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