[Birdnet] More Bohemian Waxwings, small Canadian Geese

[Craig Fosdick]

Apologies in advance for the cross-post if you receive both the Box
Elder-Cache-Rich Co. list and the Utah Birds list.

Today I did a half-day Cache Valley patrol, trying to scare up some BOHEMIAN
WAXWINGS which have been eluding me for about 3 weeks now.  I finally
located a flock of 40+ BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS today in Paradise, feeding in a
crabapple tree next to the Utah Daughters of Pioneers Museum on the east
side of 200 West (Utah 165).  The Museum, a tiny stone building, is at 8970
West, next to the Cracker Barrel Cafe; both buildings are between 8900 South
and 9000 South.  Across the road from the crabapple tree is a (full-size)
apple tree (the apples, not the tree, are full-size) in a horse pasture.
The waxwings were flying back and forth between the two between ~300 and
~400 pm Sat afternoon.

Hyrum State Park had, among 100+ Canadian Geese, 3-4 very small Canadian
Geese that appeared to be about half the size of their larger companions.
These 3-4 small geese also had very small bills and small heads.  They
appeared to lack the dark breast coloration found on Cackling Geese, but
viewing conditions weren't exactly optimal.  The geese were observed from
the turnaround in the camping area on the NW corner of the park, using a 40x
power eyepiece on a 77mm spotting scope.  The geese were on the far side of
the reservoir, but directly across from me, with the sun high and slightly
to their right.

How often do small Canadian Geese show up in Utah?

Other birds at Hyrum State Park included a female Hooded Merganser sleeping
on the far shore, 4 Common Loons (a fifth loon was too distant) as well as a
couple of Redhead, 30 Common Goldeneye, 35 Lesser Scaup, and  300+ gulls at
the far eastern end of the reservoir.  Sorry, I was too interested in
finding Bohemian Waxwings to take the time to get close enough to pick
through and count all the gulls.

Craig.
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