[Birdnet] white-winged dove, bewick's wren

[weston smith]

Just like to let you all know about a couple odd birds we have had in our 
backyard here in Croydon, Utah(Morgan County) in the last couple of days.
First on Monday(9/3) after noon there was a juvinile White-winged dove 
feeding with four Eurasin Collared Doves below our feeders. And the second 
was a Bewick's Wren foraging in our wood pile this morning(9/5). After 
talking with my father(Arnold Smith)I believe these are both firsts for 
Morgan County. Also we have been having a Coopers Hawk hanging out for lunch 
the last two days
and the hummingbirds have tapered off signifagantly in the last week but we 
are still seeing five to ten.
Another couple of interesting bird sighting are from the west desert. I saw 
an Osprey sitting on one of the Railroad bridges out at Hogup, and for those 
of you that are wondering where this is, it is a railroad siding about half 
way between Ogden and Lucin on the former Southern Pacific Railroad that 
cuts across that Great Salt Lake with no public access. The other sighting 
was at the same location about two weeks ago which I have been very 
reluctant to mention but after seeing the for mentioned birds I will let you 
all decide what I saw. I was on a train coming east from Lucin to Ogden and 
at Hogup I had a flock of eight to ten birds fly across the tracks infront 
of me. The birds looked to be black or a very dark brown, with a pause in 
their flight like blackbirds and looked to be about the size of cowbirds 
which is what came to mind male cowbirds but as we spilt the group at about 
25 miles an hour their underwing had that silver shimmer that Turkey Vulters 
and Rosy-finches have and I took a look out the side window and could swear 
that they indeed were Black Rosy-finches. Unfortunatly I could not just stop 
and go chase them to get a positive id on them, and there isn't a snow 
capped mountain within a couple hundred miles of this desert location. If 
anyone has another idea of what they could have been I'd love to hear it.

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