[Birdtalk] It Was a 3-Owl Night

[Glenn B. Barlow]

Folks,

 

On Wednesday evening a group of Utah County birders met at the Payson Park
and Ride, near I-15, and birded the southern part of Utah County and the
northern part of Juab County, near Mona.  This is by no means all the birds
that were seen, but at least most of them.  It seems that there were about
7-8 carloads of people, perhaps more.  We started up Goshen Canyon and went
south.  In Goshen Canyon we had great looks at a Canyon Wren,
Yellow-breasted Chat, and some other usual birds, including a fly-over by a
Peregrine Falcon  Our trip ended at dark with a great view of a Ferruginous
Hawk, a Swainson’s Hawk, several Short-eared Owls, and Burrowing Owls in the
fields west of the road south to the city Mona, just east of the reservoir.
There were lots of Common Nighthawks in the wetland marsh area south of Mona
Lake, leading to town. As we took the old highway north Dennis stropped when
he spotted some Barn Owls flying into some trees on the east side of the
road.

 

A list of birds seen included the following:

 

Utah County 

 

Payson:

Barn Swallow

 

Goshen:

Common Nighthawk

Eurasian Collared Dove

Mourning Dove

 

Goshen Canyon:

Chukar 

American Robin

Golden Eagle

Yellow-breasted Chat

Peregrine Falcon (flying over mountain to east)

Black-billed Magpie

Rock Pigeon

Great Blue Heron (flying over the canyon toward Utah Lake)

Canyon Wren

 

Juab County 

 

South of Goshen Canyon

 

Spotted Towhee

American Towhee

Northern Harrier

Ferruginous Hawk

Short-eared Owl

Swainson’s Hawk

Burrowing Owl

Lark Sparrow

Mourning Dove

Common Raven

American Coot

Killdeer

American Avocet

Mallard

Willet

Black-necked Stilt

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Black-crowned Night Heron

Barn Owl

 

Good birding to all.

 

Glenn

 

 


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