[Birdnet] Ouray NWR General Waterbird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws.gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
7/24/07

Sheppard Bottom, Parker, Johnson and Wyasket Bottoms are all dry.  Half of
Leota Bottom is also dry, not much for viewing waterbirds.  But good
viewing on other things:  60+ elk w/calves, pronghorns w/triplets, my first
sighting of a badger on the Refuge, and lots of blue grosbeaks and Lazuli
buntings today.  The following birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese    104
Mallard   137
Gadwall   230
Cinnamon teal   3
American wigeon   7
Wood duck   8
Redhead   4
American coot   71
Great blue heron   42
Snowy egret   9
Black-crowned night heron    5
White-faced ibis   92
Double-crested cormorant   23
American white pelican   106
American bittern   3
Marbled godwit   2
Killdeer   84
Black-necked stilt   2
Spotted sandpiper   9
Greater yellowlegs   1
Pied-billed grebe   17
Western grebe   10
Ring-billed gull    14
Forster's tern   2
Black tern    1
Great horned owl - young   3
Northern harrier   1
Red-tailed hawk   4
American kestrel    1
Turkey vulture   9



Diane Penttila
Ouray NWR
Randlett, UT
(435)545-2522 x 12
diane_penttila at fws.gov