[Birdnet] White-winged Crossbills

[Steve Sommerfeld]

This morning Steve and I went to Big Cottonwood Canyon hoping to fill a
couple gaps in our year list.  Our target birds were Swainson's Thrush and
Goshawk.  Our first stop was Donut Falls trail head.  We walked about a
hundred yards back down the road from the parking lot and  I heard
White-winged Crossbills singing.  We were able to locate them an had some
great looks.  For the next several hundred yards we came across even more.
All totaled we saw at least ten.

Next stop was Silver Lake.  Just west of the parking lot, again we found
White-winged Crossbills.  This time only about four.  At the hummingbird
feeders near by. Steve spotted a Calliope Humming bird along with
Broad-tailed and Black-chinned.

Driving down the canyon was a challenge since it was being used as the
alternate to Parley's.

Yesterday (Saturday) we went to the west side of Willard Bay.  We only found
six Black Terns and about as many Forster's. There were Thousands of
Long-billed Dowitchers and hundreds of Godwits.  We hurried over to Bear
River Visitors Center in time to tag along on one of their tours.  The water
is down and many places were dry.  At one of the few places with water we
did see a Common Tern.

Even though we didn't get our target birds for the day, Calliope Hummingbird
and Common Tern were year birds.  It guess it was a push.

Good Birding,     Cindy
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