[Birdnet] Magnolia Warbler at Deseret Ranch

[Mark Stackhouse]

While birding Deseret Ranch yesterday (May 23) with Helen Wheelock of  
New York, we saw a male MAGNOLIA WARBLER. It was in the brush along a  
stream just south of the ranch office (Home Ranch, Rich Co.). I have  
some photos of the bird that I'm sending to be posted on the Utah  
Birds website. Since all the Magnolia Warblers I've seen in recent  
years have been  fall migrants or wintering birds in Mexico, I'd  
forgotten how stunning the male, breeding-plumage bird is. It was  
fabulous.

Overall, we had a great day on the ranch, with 130 species total for  
the day, in spite of a number of "big misses," including a half-dozen  
or more species that I'd seen there just two days before. other good  
birds included GREATER SCAUP, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and NORTHERN SAW- 
WHET OWL (late? - but I've had them Memorial Day weekend in the past).  
We saw the usual abundance of mammals as well.

A complete list of what we saw follows.

Good birding!

Mark Stackhouse


Canada Goose

Gadwall

American Wigeon

Mallard

Blue-winged Teal

Cinnamon Teal

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Green-winged Teal

Canvasback

Redhead

Ring-necked Duck

Greater Scaup

Lesser Scaup

Common Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Ruffed Grouse

Greater Sage-Grouse

Dusky Grouse

Eared Grebe

Western Grebe

Clark's Grebe

American White Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Snowy Egret

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Cooper's Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Golden Eagle

American Kestrel

Prairie Falcon

Virginia Rail

Sora

American Coot

Sandhill Crane

Killdeer

Black-necked Stilt

American Avocet

Willet

Spotted Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Long-billed Dowitcher

Wilson's  Snipe

Wilson's Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

Ring-billed Gull

California Gull

Caspian Tern

Forster's Tern

Rock Pigeon

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Mourning Dove

Flammulated Owl

Great Horned Owl

Northern Saw-whet Owl

Common Poorwill

White-throated Swift

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Northern Flicker

Willow Flycatcher

Hammond's Flycatcher

Dusky Flycatcher

Cordilleran Flycatcher

Say's Phoebe

Western Kingbird

Loggerhead Shrike

Northern Shrike

Plumbeous Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Clark's Nutcracker

Black-billed Magpie

American Crow

Common Raven

Horned Lark

Tree Swallow

Violet-green Swallow

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Bank Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Mountain Chickadee

Bushtit

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Rock Wren

House Wren

Marsh Wren

American Dipper

Mountain Bluebird

Townsend's Solitaire

Hermit Thrush

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Sage Thrasher

European Starling


Orange-crowned Warbler

Virginia's Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

MacGillivray's Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Yellow-breasted Chat

Western Tanager

Green-tailed Towhee

Spotted Towhee

Brewer's Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Sage Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Lazuli Bunting

Red-winged Blackbird

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Brewer's Blackbird

Brown-headed Cowbird

Bullock's Oriole

House Finch

Pine Siskin

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow
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