[Birdtalk] Posting sightings

[Stephen Peterson]

OK.
Since I don't get out very often to bird, with the exception of my monthly 
Amalga Barrens transect, this is what I have seen in the past few weeks.

>From my kitchen window I have watched 2 pairs of Lesser Goldfinches on my 
nyjer seed feeder for the past week. Robins, chickadees and house finches 
bathing in the bird bath. A half dozen ruby-crowned kinglets flitting about 
in the trees. Flickers calling out to one another.
Last Tuesday I saw 500 plus Sandhill Cranes wheeling though the sky, high 
overhead the USU campus. They came in groups of 200, 150, 100 and 50 plus. 
Cedar Waxwings are all over the fruiting trees on campus. I can't wait for 
the Bohemians to show up in January. Logan City has got to be the American 
Crow capital of northern Utah. We have hundreds of crows keeping tight 
throughout the late afternoon, roosting in the common firs and pines around 
town. It is quite a sight. Masses of red-winged blackbirds and starlings are 
swarming all over, outside of my work. They just cut down the cornfields 
next to work, so they are working that area and there is plenty of crabapple 
fruit for them in the parking lot.
The barrens is looking, well, quite barren. I only counted two ducks Sunday. 
Two Gadwalls, one lone avocet in winter plumage, obviously lost, a couple 
dozen horned larks, one coot, quite a few red-winged blackbirds, a couple of 
marsh wrens, a couple northern harrier, a red-tailed hawk, an American 
kestrel and thats it!
I am really looking forward to the goldeneyes making their way back to Cache 
Valley. I think I enjoy the winter migrants as much or even more than the 
spring birds. Merlins will be showing up any day now. Rough-legged hawks 
should be on the way.

Sorry for the novel. I haven't posted anything in a while, so it was all 
over the place.

OK
back to work

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