[Birdtalk] Utah Lake eastern kingbird

[Brad/Lynn Carroll]

One source of recent data on what birds are seen when is eBird 
[www.ebird.org].  You can see graphs of data shown in a number of 
different ways.  Unfortunately, not many birders in Utah seem to be 
submitting reports there.  So when I asked to see the total numbers of 
Eastern Kingbirds reported in several Northern Utah counties for the 
last 4 years,  none of the checklists had the species later than the 
last week of August, but even at the peak, only 7 checklists included 
the species.  It would be nice if  more of us were reporting so that a 
true picture of the occurence of species in Utah could be seen.  I must 
admit that I still haven't entered any of the lists I kept this year.

Enjoy!
Lynn Carroll
Ogden



L. D. Giddings wrote:

>I spent a few hours Sunday morning and afternoon checking the south end
>of Utah lake. An eastern kingbird was seen on a utility line with a
>small flock of starlings in Genola, just beyond the LeBaron Point road.
>I know this is near the late date for this species. Where may one find
>late date information for various species within the state? I'm aware of
>Behle/Perry's "Utah Birds." Is there anything more recent?
>
>There was also a flock of about 50 barn swallows terrorizing the flying
>insects in Genola. At Lincoln Beach there was a single Forster's tern
>and about 15 Caspian terns, most of which appear to be juvenile birds,
>two long-billed dowitchers, both types of yellowlegs, a semi-palmated
>plover, and about a dozen small peeps which were difficult to see but
>which appeared to be mostly western sandpipers. There were also sandhill
>cranes cooing in the tall stuff at the south end of the beach and a
>virginia rail croaking from the cattails along with various gulls,
>waders, and other common birds.
>
>Lu Giddings
>
>Sunday's birds:
>Canada Goose
>Ruddy Duck
>Ring-necked Pheasant
>Western Grebe
>Clark's Grebe
>American White Pelican
>Double-crested Cormorant
>Great Blue Heron
>Snowy Egret
>Black-crowned Night-Heron
>Northern Harrier
>Red-tailed Hawk
>Ferruginous Hawk
>American Kestrel
>Virginia Rail
>American Coot
>Sandhill Crane
>Semipalmated Plover
>Killdeer
>Greater Yellowlegs
>Lesser Yellowlegs
>Spotted Sandpiper
>Western Sandpiper
>Long-billed Dowitcher
>Wilson's Snipe
>Ring-billed Gull
>Californian Gull
>Caspian Tern
>Forster's Tern
>Eastern Kingbird
>Common Raven
>Barn Swallow
>Marsh Wren
>American Robin
>European Starling
>American Pipit
>Red-winged Blackbird
>Western Meadowlark
>American Goldfinch
>
>
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