[Birdtalk] Hudsonian Godwit at Logan Polishing Ponds - Cache Valley

[Buck Russell]

Reinhard Jockel, Cindy,  my wife, and I birded the Logan Polishing Ponds this morning.  The best bird of the morning was a Hudsonian Godwit.  We found a single bird in non-breeding plumage walking at the edge of the water in the mudflat.  We had a good look at the bird.  It had a very bold  white supercilium and dark eyeline.  There was one odd thing about this bird, it joined a flight of Long-billed Curlews as they flew over the pond.  The curlews had very distinct down curved bills and the godwit had a bill with a slight up-curve.  We  found about a dozen Baird Sandpipers, two Semipalmated Plovers, and a Spotted Sandpiper.  The pond where we saw the godwit and sandpipers was a large mudflat with very little water.  The other ponds have a lot of water in them and were loaded with ducks.  We also saw a Great Horned Owl.  A farmer made a lot of noise dragging some irrigation pipe behind his ATV and spooked a Great Horned Owl from a group of trees next to the polishing ponds.  Regrettably no White Throated Sparrows or Boreal Owls.  J  
 
Here are the birds we saw this morning:
Pied-billed Grebe
White-faced Ibis
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Mallard
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
American Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Great Horned Owl
Western Kingbird (sitting out in the mud flat)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Common Yellowthroat
Red-winged Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Sandhill Crane
 
Thanks.
Buck Russell
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