[Birdnet] HOTLINE: Sandhill cranes, white-winged crossbills (Cache)

[Jason Pietrzak]

I just wanted to add a couple things to this report... When we went looking
in the cemetery (where Ryan O'Donnell first reported huge flocks earlier
this week), we found a huge group of Red Crossbills with only a couple
White-wingeds mixed in. After a bit of searching, we found the White-wingeds
in a short Spruce stand and we were able to get really close to them. My
best guess is that there were equal numbers of total Red and White-winged
Crossbills, maybe 20-30 of each.

Near the Crossbills were good numbers of Cedar Waxwings and Robins (although
in different trees).

Lastly, after a dozen trips, I finally saw the canal Western Screech-Owl out
in the sun.

Here are a couple photos from today, mainly of Crossbills. No photos of
Sandhills - they were too far away.

http://photojkp.com/Logan022809/

Jason Pietrzak


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Nancy Williams <nancy.moonbeam at gmail.com>wrote:

> Reinhard Jockel phoned with the first sandhill crane report of the
> season this morning. He and Jason were out birding and saw three
> sandhill cranes in the fields south of the Bear River on 3600 West
> (the road from Valley View Highway to Benson) The cranes were with a
> small flock of Canada geese.
>
> They also went looking for the white-winged crossbills at Logan
> Cemetery.  There were a few high up in the tree tops at the cemetery,
> he said, but the best sighting was on 10th North by the USU stadium.
> There in a tree, very close, were more than a dozen. "We also saw
> another flock fly -- there must have been 3 dozen or more."
>
> Also, they saw a huge flock of geese and ring-billed gulls at the pig
> farm, and large flocks of horned larks. "That's worth going to see,
> because sometimes there are snow geese and cackling geese, though none
> were there today," he said.
>
>
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