[Birdnet] International Center Clay-colored and Swamp Sparrows

[Mark Stackhouse]

David Wheeler and I birded the Salt Lake International Center this  
morning looking for migrants. There was a fair amount of activity,  
with sparrows being the highlight. A Clay-colored Sparrow was amongst  
some Chipping Sparrows (there were lots of these today) at the  
junction of Wiley Post Rd. and Admiral Byrd Rd. There was a Swamp  
Sparrow along the brushy canal at the southwest corner of the complex.  
Other than that, there were lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers, with  
Orange-crowned Warblers next most numerous, but not much diversity in  
the warblers. There was a (late?) Western Tanager male, and a Red- 
naped Sapsucker. One of our more exciting moments came when both David  
and I looking through our binoculars at some Chipping Sparrows that  
were feeding in the lawn grass when a kestrel blew-up the entire  
group. as far as I could tell, no kill was made.

Mark Stackhouse
mark at westwings.com
801-487-9453 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
011-52-323-285-1243 (San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico)

Here's our list:

Location:     Salt Lake Internation Center, SL Co.
Observation date:     9/28/08
Number of species:     30

Canada Goose     50
Mallard     2
Turkey Vulture     2
Sharp-shinned Hawk     1
American Kestrel     1
Ring-billed Gull     1
California Gull     4
Rock Pigeon     3
Mourning Dove     20
Red-naped Sapsucker     1
Northern Flicker     1
American Robin     1
European Starling     100
Orange-crowned Warbler     5
Yellow Warbler     2
Yellow-rumped Warbler     25
MacGillivray's Warbler     1
Western Tanager     1
Chipping Sparrow     30
Clay-colored Sparrow     1
Song Sparrow     2
Lincoln's Sparrow     1
Swamp Sparrow     1
White-crowned Sparrow     4
Dark-eyed Junco     8
Red-winged Blackbird     1
Brewer's Blackbird     1
House Finch     40
American Goldfinch     10
House Sparrow     10

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)



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