[Birdnet] All 3 Scoters at AIC - UCB Field Trip

[Eric Huish]

Lu Gidding led 4 carloads of Utah County Birders on a field trip today.  We saw 4 Common Loons on Deer Creek Res. (our only loons of the day).  At East Canyon we had Barrow's Goldeneye and Hooded Mergansers.  On the Antelope Island Causeway we saw the previously reported Black Scoter and  Long-tailed Duck at the last bridge before the island.. We also saw a White-winged Scoter.  It flew past on the North side of the causeway then a few minutes later flew in and landed near the bridge on the South side.  The field trip ended here. It was a great field trip with lifers for some in the group.  
 
Matt, Stephanie and I headed on to Garr Ranch where the best birds were a Merlin and a Great Horned Owl.  On our way back across the causeway we stopped at the bridge again (4:15 p.m.)  This time there was one of each scoter species.  The White-winged on the South and the Black and a Surf next to each other right next to shore on the North side of the causeway.
 
Eric Huish Pleasant Grove UT poorwill_ at hotmail.com 801-360-8777     
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