[Birdnet] Mountain Plover, Garr Ranch migrants

[Mark Stackhouse]

Another British birder and I found a few good birds at Garr Ranch 
(Antelope Island) and Bear River Refuge today. First, we saw a juvenile 
Mountain Plover at Bear River on the auto-tour loop about 3/4 mile SE 
of the NW corner in the main impoundment. It was bathing about 50 
meters off of the road, and after we watched it for about 10 minutes, 
most of the shorebirds in the area flushed and flew to the northeast 
and it was lost in the tens of thousands of shorebirds there. We also 
saw a Stilt Sandpiper near the SE corner of the loop and several 
Short-billed Dowitchers amongst the thousands of Long-billed.

At Garr Ranch, songbird migrants are appearing. This morning we saw a 
Townsend's Warbler, two Nashville Warblers and a female Indigo Bunting. 
The warblers were also present on last Thursday morning. There are lots 
of hummingbirds at the feeders, and plenty of more common migrants, 
such as Macgillivray's and Wilson's Warblers.

Mark Stackhouse
mark at westwings.com
801-487-9453 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
011-52-323-285-1243 (San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico)