[Birdtalk] a slow day at Utah Lake

[L. D. Giddings]

I had a chance to spend a few hours on the Airport dikes and at Utah
Lake State Park early yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately I cannot report
seeing any wood storks, roseate spoonbills, or purple gallinules. The
birds one normally expects to see and hear were present. Water levels
appear to have dropped about 12" in the last four weeks but are still
far higher than at this same time last year. There should very good
habitat for those birds beginning to migrate south in just a few weeks.

Lu Giddings

 Number of Species: 28
 Western Grebe
 Clark's Grebe
 American White Pelican
 Black-crowned Night-Heron
 Turkey Vulture
 Mallard
 American Coot
 Killdeer
 Spotted Sandpiper
 California Gull
 Caspian Tern
 Forster's Tern
 Mourning Dove
 Western Kingbird
 Eastern Kingbird
 Barn Swallow
 Marsh Wren
 American Robin
 European Starling
 Yellow Warbler
 Common Yellowthroat
 Song Sparrow
 Red-winged Blackbird
 Western Meadowlark
 Yellow-headed Blackbird
 Bullock's Oriole
 House Finch
 House Sparrow