[Birdnet] Bird Festival Deseret Ranch Trip List

[Bill Fenimore]

I just completed leading the Great Salt Lake Bird Festival Deseret Ranch trips.  They were interesting trips.  The high country was still blocked by snow, so we were only able to bird the lower elevation habitats.  The Lost Creek gate was not accessible for the first two trips due to snow blocking the road.  However, the warm temperatures melted it off, so that we were able to go through it on Monday's trip.  

It is a late spring on the ranch with trees not yet budding and low insect activity due to cool temperatures.  However, we still managed to have good days and everyone on the trips told me that they enjoyed themselves.  You can see that the birding picked up, as things warmed up.  We tallied 88 bird species on Thursday for the first trip in a white 30 passenger bus.  Not the ideal birding vehicle.  The Sunday trip in three white 7 passenger vans produced 105 species.  We were able to access two locations where the buses cannot fit.  The last trip, Monday tallied 95 species in a 30 passenger white bus.  Overall, when considering we never got into any timber or high elevation areas we saw a good number of bird species.

Species seen follow (all were seen):

Canada Geese
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked duck
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Greater Sage-Grouse
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Prairie Falcon
Sora Rail
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Semipalmated Plover
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Long-eared Owl
White-throated Swift
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-Pewee
Gray Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Says Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Loggerheaded Shrike
Warbling Vireo
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Northern Roughed-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Rock Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Mountain Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Sage Thrasher
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Western Tanager
Green-tailed Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
Cassin's Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Regards,

Bill Fenimore
801-525-8400 Business
801-699-9330 Cellular
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