[Birdnet] Re: Geese/Eurasian Widgeon at Sky Mt. Golf Course in
Hurricane
Keeli Marvel
keeli.marvel at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 09:02:10 MST 2009
Yesterday (Sunday) morning I stopped on my way home from the St. George Bird
Festival to check out the waterfowl hanging out in the ponds on Sky Mountain
Golf Course just off 600 N. and about 2600 W. on the outskirts of
Hurricane. I saw 2 Snow Geese, 1 Egyptian Goose (which threw me for a
loop), a Greater White-fronted Goose, a Mute Swan, a whole bunch of Canada
Geese, American Widgeons and one lone Eurasian Widgeon. Great weather, and
great weekend of birding!
Keeli Marvel
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> 1. HOTLINE: Black-crowned night herons, Logan (Nancy Williams)
> 2. HOTLINE: Logan Canyon Saturday (Nancy Williams)
> 3. Re: HOTLINE: Logan Canyon Saturday (Nancy Williams)
> 4. HOTLINE: Cache County Cackling Goose, Merlin, etc.
> (Nancy Williams)
> 5. re: HOTLINE: Cache County Cackling Goose, Merlin, etc.
> (Nancy Williams)
> 6. ID Help -- possible Rusty Black bird near Francis (Milt Moody)
> 7. That solved my mystery bird in Francis 01-26-09...
> (garybnunn at gmail.com)
> 8. robins (kimberly roush)
> 9. RE: That solved my mystery bird in Francis 01-26-09...
> (Glenda Cotter)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:04:03 -0700
> From: Nancy Williams <nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Birdnet] HOTLINE: Black-crowned night herons, Logan
> To: nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com
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> A PS to this -- Reinhard Jockel also phoned to report these birds, and
> add that in his decades of record-keeping, Jan. 30 is the earliest
> he's seen black-crowned night herons in the valley. Last year he saw
> them on Feb. 20 and thought that was quite early. -Nancy
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jason Pietrzak <pietrzak at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:16 PM
> Subject: [TopOfUtah] Logan Birding - east side of the valley
> To: Box Elder Cache Rich hotline <topofutah at utahbirds.org>
>
>
> Reinhard Jockel and I went out for a day of birding around the east
> valley today and we hauled in 50 species.
>
> We started at the fish hatchery area where we picked up 3
> Black-crowned Night-Herons and an American Pipit. We also found a dead
> Starling stuck in a tree and below it was the severed Starling head,
> frozen to the ground! We assumed there was an owl around somewhere but
> didn't see it.
>
> Next we went to the 20-20 Ponds area where we saw 12 duck species
> including Greater Scaup (male and female), 6 Wood Ducks, 1 Pintail,
> and several Canvasbacks. We also found Am. Tree Sparrows in the
> bushes.
>
> At Logan River Golf Course, not much on the trail, but the pond held
> Redheads and several other species previously seen.
>
> Lastly, we picked up Anne and went for a couple miles into Green
> Canyon where we got Chukars and Solitaires. On the way home, we
> stopped at First Dam and saw the Hooded Merganser female (along with a
> Common Merg. female).
>
> All in all a decent day. Reinhard has also discovered that Chukars can
> be reliably found on the south-facing hills below the University in
> case anybody is looking for them. He's seen them a couple times in the
> past week or two.
>
> Good birding,
>
> Jason Pietrzak
>
>
> P.S. Complete list:
> Canada Goose
> Wood Duck
> Gadwall
> American Wigeon
> Mallard
> Northern Shoveler
> Northern Pintail
> Canvasback
> Redhead
> Ring-necked Duck
> Greater Scaup
> Lesser Scaup
> Bufflehead
> Common Goldeneye
> Barrow's Goldeneye
> Hooded Merganser
> Common Merganser
> Ruddy Duck
> Chukar
> Ring-necked Pheasant
> Great Blue Heron
> Black-crowned Night-Heron
> Bald Eagle
> Red-tailed Hawk
> American Kestrel
> American Coot
> Killdeer
> Ring-billed Gull
> Rock Pigeon
> Eurasian Collared-Dove
> Belted Kingfisher
> Northern Flicker
> Black-billed Magpie
> American Crow
> Common Raven
> Black-capped Chickadee
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet
> Townsend's Solitaire
> American Robin
> European Starling
> American Pipit
> Yellow-rumped Warbler
> American Tree Sparrow
> Song Sparrow
> Dark-eyed Junco
> Red-winged Blackbird
> Brewer's Blackbird
> House Finch
> Pine Siskin
> American Goldfinch
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 00:27:03 -0700
> From: Nancy Williams <nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Birdnet] HOTLINE: Logan Canyon Saturday
> To: nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jason Pietrzak <pietrzak at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:31 PM
> Subject: [TopOfUtah] Logan Canyon Saturday
> To: Box Elder Cache Rich hotline <topofutah at utahbirds.org>
>
>
> I went for a snowshoe up one of the hills near Temple Fork today and
> found a flock of around 60 Red Crossbills at about 6000 ft. Mtn.
> Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Solitaires, a Raven, and a Golden
> Eagle rounded out the expected species that were seen but I was
> somewhat surprised to see a pair of Robins at about 6500 ft, well
> above all the other species. Is it just me, or is that a little
> bizarre?
>
> Also, I had 3 Cassin's Finches at my feeders this morning!
>
> Jason Pietrzak
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> --
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> Journalism & Communication
> Utah State University
> http://www.hardnewscafe.usu.edu
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:30:48 -0700
> From: Nancy Williams <nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Birdnet] Re: HOTLINE: Logan Canyon Saturday
> To: nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com
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> From: Christopher Cokinos <chris.cokinos at usu.edu>
> Date: Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:01 AM
> Subject: RE: HOTLINE: Logan Canyon Saturday
> To: Nancy Williams <nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com>
>
>
> Regarding robins, I saw a flock near Old Main Hill on campus last Thursday.
>
> Christopher Cokinos
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:47:22 -0700
> From: Nancy Williams <nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Birdnet] HOTLINE: Cache County Cackling Goose, Merlin, etc.
> To: nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ryan O'Donnell <ryan at biology.usu.edu>
> Date: Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:01 PM
> Subject: Cache County Cackling Goose, Merlin, etc.
> To: topofutah at utahbirds.org, nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com,
> birdtalk at utahbirds.org
>
>
> I birded around several locations in Cache County today. The best
> sighting of the day was on my way out the door at home, when I heard a
> Common Raven calling and then looked up to see it harrassing a
> Red-tailed Hawk. Common Ravens are indeed common in Cache Valley, but
> I've only heard them once from my house in the year and a half I've
> lived here, and this is the first time I've seen one from there. (In
> contrast, American Crows are pretty much daily.) Here's a composite
> photo:
> http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/compsmall.jpg
> I went to the 20-20 Ponds in search of the Greater Scaup and American
> Tree Sparrows reported by Jason Pietrzak. I couldn't pass up the chance
> to practice scaup identification with side-by-side comparisons, and I've
> been wanting to get good shots of Tree Sparrows for a while now.
> Unfortunately, I found neither the Greater Scaup nor the Tree Sparrows,
> only 30 or so Lesser Scaup and about 20 White-crowned Sparrows. Most of
> the White-crowned Sparrows were juveniles:
> http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/WCSPsmall.jpg
> I've seen many fewer Merlins this winter than in the last two years.
> Today I saw my first of the year, and only my second this season, in the
> town of Newton.
> Manure has been spread on many fields in the valley, which can be a good
> place to look for birds. I couldn't find any special visitors among the
> Horned Larks today:
> http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/HOLAsmall.jpg
> There was a flock of about 500 Canada Geese feeding along Sam Fellow
> Road where the White-fronted Goose was seen last year. I found one
> Cackling Goose among these Canadas, shown here at the lower right:
> http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/CACGsmall.jpg
>
> Good birding,
> Ryan
>
> Ryan P. O'Donnell
> Department of Biology and the Ecology Center
> Utah State University
> 5305 Old Main Hill
> Logan, UT 84322-5305
>
> http://200birds.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
> --
> Nancy Williams, assistant professor
> Journalism & Communication
> Utah State University
> http://www.hardnewscafe.usu.edu
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:17:06 -0700
> From: Nancy Williams <nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Birdnet] re: HOTLINE: Cache County Cackling Goose, Merlin,
> etc.
> To: nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jason Pietrzak <jaypie77 at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [TopOfUtah] Cache County Cackling Goose, Merlin, etc.
> To: Ryan O'Donnell <ryan at biology.usu.edu>
> Cc: topofutah at utahbirds.org, nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com,
> birdtalk at utahbirds.org
>
>
> Nice work on the Cackling... I was hoping to see one myself but we
> didn't have a chance to check out too many geese... Unfortunately, the
> week looks like more smog so that's not great for birding but then
> again, I might take Tuesday and go bird around the valley. I have
> always felt that that gives the birds enough time to relax from the
> high weekend traffic but in Cache Valley maybe not so much.
>
> FYI - the Greater Scaups were almost the last thing Reinhard and I saw
> (and he didn't see them well enough to make a call either way). You
> know that place where you drive/walk down that short road to the
> backside of 20-20? From there I saw several Scaup together and called
> 1 to be a Greater. She was at great distance, though, and disappeared
> from view seconds later. We went back to the main turnoff area and
> scoped and happened across a pair together, although the main species
> there had to be Gadwall or Canvasback. Not many Scaup.
>
> Looks like your pictures are coming along well too!
>
> Jason
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Ryan O'Donnell <ryan at biology.usu.edu>
> wrote:
> > I birded around several locations in Cache County today. The best
> > sighting of the day was on my way out the door at home, when I heard a
> > Common Raven calling and then looked up to see it harrassing a
> > Red-tailed Hawk. Common Ravens are indeed common in Cache Valley, but
> > I've only heard them once from my house in the year and a half I've
> > lived here, and this is the first time I've seen one from there. (In
> > contrast, American Crows are pretty much daily.) Here's a composite
> > photo:
> > http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/compsmall.jpg
> > I went to the 20-20 Ponds in search of the Greater Scaup and American
> > Tree Sparrows reported by Jason Pietrzak. I couldn't pass up the chance
> > to practice scaup identification with side-by-side comparisons, and I've
> > been wanting to get good shots of Tree Sparrows for a while now.
> > Unfortunately, I found neither the Greater Scaup nor the Tree Sparrows,
> > only 30 or so Lesser Scaup and about 20 White-crowned Sparrows. Most of
> > the White-crowned Sparrows were juveniles:
> > http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/WCSPsmall.jpg
> > I've seen many fewer Merlins this winter than in the last two years.
> > Today I saw my first of the year, and only my second this season, in the
> > town of Newton.
> > Manure has been spread on many fields in the valley, which can be a good
> > place to look for birds. I couldn't find any special visitors among the
> > Horned Larks today:
> > http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/HOLAsmall.jpg
> > There was a flock of about 500 Canada Geese feeding along Sam Fellow
> > Road where the White-fronted Goose was seen last year. I found one
> > Cackling Goose among these Canadas, shown here at the lower right:
> > http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/CACGsmall.jpg
> >
> > Good birding,
> > Ryan
> >
> > Ryan P. O'Donnell
> > Department of Biology and the Ecology Center
> > Utah State University
> > 5305 Old Main Hill
> > Logan, UT 84322-5305
> >
> > http://200birds.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > TopOfUtah mailing list
> > TopOfUtah at utahbirds.org
> > http://utahbirds.org/mailman/listinfo/topofutah
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Nancy Williams, assistant professor
> Journalism & Communication
> Utah State University
> http://www.hardnewscafe.usu.edu
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/nanwilliams
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:11:46 -0800 (PST)
> From: Milt Moody <miltonmoody at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Birdnet] ID Help -- possible Rusty Black bird near Francis
> To: Birdnet Hotline <birdnet at utahbirds.org>
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> Shelly Spencer sent in two photos of a bird taken near Francis and asked
> for some ID Help -- take a look, this could be a good one!
>
> http://www.utahbirds.org/hotlinephotos/2009/RustyBlackbird2.htm
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:47:28 +0000
> From: garybnunn at gmail.com
> Subject: [Birdnet] That solved my mystery bird in Francis 01-26-09...
> To: birdnet at utahbirds.org
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> On Jan 26th I also saw the same bird photographed by Shelly Spencer in
> Francis. After some Evening Grosbeaks cleared out of some chokecherry about
> 1.5 miles down Lower River Road I caught sight of a blackbird sized bird
> deep in some tangled bushes, no amount of pishing could bring it out but
> the pale eye and pale rufous eyebrow were evident as it peered back at me.
> It flew to another tangle and I could see it was quite rufous overall in
> plumage almost reminscent of a small dark thrasher or giant bewick's wren.
> That was my last view, my thought at the time was a lone Brewer's Blackbird
> eking out an existence in a very strange place - I should have known better
> from the rufous plumage and distinctive eyebrow marking evident in the deep
> shade of the tangle. With all the action going on and my all out hunt for
> Bohemian Waxwing, I gave up and moved on...
>
> Congratulations to Shelley on great documentation!
>
> Gary Nunn
> Ahwatukee, AZ
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> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 07:46:16 -0700
> From: kimberly roush <kroush at xmission.com>
> Subject: [Birdnet] robins
> To: Birdnet at utahbirds.org
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> Nancy
>
> We live in Park City Utah at 6800 feet.
> The resident flock of robins seems to have not migrated
> and we see them on the road from Jeremy ranch to East Canyon which is
> about
> 6000 foot elevation. I see them also on our Pinebrook hiking trails
> which are 7000 feet +.
>
> Kimberly Roush
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 08:14:45 -0700
> From: "Glenda Cotter" <glenda.cotter at utah.edu>
> Subject: RE: [Birdnet] That solved my mystery bird in Francis
> 01-26-09...
> To: <birdnet at utahbirds.org>
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> I also saw and photographed Shelly Spencer's Rusty Blackbird in Francis
> on Saturday, though it's a very distant and not terribly helpful photo.
> And like Gary Nunn I concluded I was seeing a lone and slightly
> oddly-plumaged Brewer's Blackbird, though Rusty Blackbird got a fair
> amount of consideration before I dismissed it. Cool to see such
> excellent documentation! Thanks, Shelly.
>
> The birding on Lower River Road was fabulous, the day beautiful, and it
> was fun to see all you birders (you know who you are)!
>
> Glenda Cotter
> Salt Lake City
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: birdnet-bounces at utahbirds.org
> [mailto:birdnet-bounces at utahbirds.org] On Behalf Of garybnunn at gmail.com
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:47 AM
> To: birdnet at utahbirds.org
> Subject: [Birdnet] That solved my mystery bird in Francis 01-26-09...
>
>
> On Jan 26th I also saw the same bird photographed by Shelly Spencer in
> Francis. After some Evening Grosbeaks cleared out of some chokecherry
> about 1.5 miles down Lower River Road I caught sight of a blackbird
> sized bird deep in some tangled bushes, no amount of pishing could bring
> it out but the pale eye and pale rufous eyebrow were evident as it
> peered back at me. It flew to another tangle and I could see it was
> quite rufous overall in plumage almost reminscent of a small dark
> thrasher or giant bewick's wren. That was my last view, my thought at
> the time was a lone Brewer's Blackbird eking out an existence in a very
> strange place - I should have known better from the rufous plumage and
> distinctive eyebrow marking evident in the deep shade of the tangle.
> With all the action going on and my all out hunt for Bohemian Waxwing, I
> gave up and moved on...
>
> Congratulations to Shelley on great documentation!
>
> Gary Nunn
> Ahwatukee, AZ
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