[Birdnet] Dunlin on Provo Airport Dike 11/6/08

[Eric Huish]

Ned Bixler and I drove around the Provo Airport Dike this evening after I got off work.  Best bird was a nonbreeding plumage Dunlin with 4 Long-billed Dowitchers on the mudflat at the East side of the dike loop (where you first see the lake when driving the dike clockwise).   The Dunlin was a Utah County lifer for me.   There were also many gulls (all ring-billed), lots of Killdeer, some pipits and a few yellowlegs on the mudflat and a beautiful Red Fox hunting out in the fields around the airport runways was great to watch.  
 
Here is a list of the birds we saw.  Plus Ned saw a Pied-billed Grebe.
 
Location: Provo Airport Dike - Utah Co. UTObservation date: 11/6/08Notes: Dunlin with dowitchers at the mudflat on the East side of dike loop.Number of species: 28 
 
Gadwall 2Mallard 2duck sp. 100Ring-necked Pheasant 1Western/Clark's Grebe 6Great Blue Heron 1Black-crowned Night-Heron 1Northern Harrier 2Red-tailed Hawk 1American Kestrel 1Virginia Rail 1 Heard onlyAmerican Coot 19Killdeer 73Greater Yellowlegs 4Dunlin 1Long-billed Dowitcher 4Ring-billed Gull 410Belted Kingfisher 2Downy Woodpecker 1Northern Flicker 4Marsh Wren 2American Pipit 15Song Sparrow 3White-crowned Sparrow 19Dark-eyed Junco 1Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) 3Red-winged Blackbird 45House Finch 2 
 
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Provo Airport Dike - http://www.utahbirds.org/counties/utahco/ProvoAirportDike.htm Eric Huish Pleasant Grove UT poorwill_ at hotmail.com 801-360-8777     
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