[Birdnet] More Bohemian Waxwings, small Canadian Geese

[Kevin Colver]

There is also a flock of 20-40 Bohemian Waxwings hanging out near the  
upper LDS chapel in Elk Ridge.  They spent half of Thanksgiving  
eating my juniper berries.  They fly around with a few Cedar  
Waxwings.  They've been eating Bradford Pear berries at the church  
and other berries, crabapples, ect. in surrounding yards.
Kevin Colver


On Nov 24, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Craig Fosdick wrote:

> 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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