[Birdtalk] Common Poorwill @ 10000ft+

[Colby Neuman]

Hi all,

A friend and I hiked up to the base of the cliffs on Devil's Castle at Alta
(Salt Lake Co.) very early this morning to get our August turns in.  A nice
surprise was a Common Poorwill that started calling at 6am on the large
talus apron (~10,300ft) found beneath Devil's Castle.  This is highest I've
ever heard one.  While waiting at the snowpatch for the sun to rise, a few
nocturnal migrants called as they flew overhead.  There were two distinct
seeps (consistent with two different warbler sp.) heard, but I'm not willing
to speculate on their true identity.  I heard the following on the hike back
to the parking lot...Rock Wren, Red-tailed Hawk, a singing Townsend's
Solitaire, multiple singing Red Crossbills (no White-wings heard), and a few
flocks of kinglets, warblers, juncos, etc. that I did not have time to look
through.

I also had a Lark Sparrow (migrant) among some large staging/migrant sparrow
flocks on the Rail Trail in Park City yesterday morning.

Colby
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