FW: [Birdtalk] Birding in Piute County

[Glenn B. Barlow]

Sorry for the mistake.  I corrected the White-breasted Nuthatch below.

 

Glenn

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From: birdtalk-bounces at utahbirds.org [mailto:birdtalk-bounces at utahbirds.org]
On Behalf Of Glenn B. Barlow
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 5:08 PM
To: birdtalk at utahbirds.org
Subject: [Birdtalk] Birding in Piute County

 

On Saturday morning Merrill Webb and I went south  to bird Piute County.  On
the way south, along I-15, we saw numerous Swainson’s Hawks along the way.
The big surprise was a Broad-winged Hawk flying east to west right over the
front of the truck, between Payson and Santaquin.  Merrill had just passed
another vehicle, so it was not possible to stop right away, but we compared
it to the pictures in Kaufman’s field guide (more on this later), and both
agreed that is what it was.

 

Merrill saw 77 species in Piute County and I saw 73.  It was a great day of
birding, but we generally had to pick-up the birds one or two at a time,
except at Otter Creek.  Here is what we saw by county, not in taxonomic
order, but (almost) in the order seen.  When you are “flying” down the
interstate about all you can see are raptors and a raven.  After we left
I-15 on Hwy 50 into Scipio we stopped at the first stop sign in the town and
noticed a very large tree with about 42 roosting Turkey Vultures.  At Piute
Reservoir there were numerous American White Pelicans.  It was interesting
to see them in a “close order” line, herding fish into the shallow water,
then spearing out with their beaks to catch the fish. 

 

Utah County

Swainson’s Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

 

Juab County

Swainson’s Hawk

American Kestrel

Red-tailed Hawk

Common Raven

 

Millard County (Scipio)

Turkey Vulture

E. Starling

Brewer’s Sparrow

W. Meadowlark

 

Piute County

Black-billed Magpie

 

(Deer Creek Rest Stop)

Chukar (H)

Western Scrub Jay

Barn Swallow

Golden Eagle

Pine Siskin

Red-tailed Hawk (soaring)

 

(Marysvale - Bullion Canyon)

Northern Flicker

Mountain Bluebird (there were many, wherever we went)

Rufous Hummingbird

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Violet-green Swallow

Mountain Chickadee

Bushtit

Black-capped Chickadee

[Black-throated Gray Warbler - Merrill]

Plumbeous Vireo

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

White-breasted Nuthatch

Red-naped Sapsucker (m. & f.)

Red-breasted Nuthatch

American Robin

Steller’s Jay

Mourning Dove

 

(Cottonwod Canyon Rd, about 1 mile in)

Pinyon Jay

Juniper Titmouse 

 

(Piute Reservoir)

Double-crested Cormorant

Western Grebe

Ring-billed Gull

California Gull

Eared Grebe

Vesper Sparrow

American White Pelican

Brewer’s Sparrow

Great Blue Heron

Western Wood-Peewee

Western Kingbird

Pied-billed Grebe

Snowy Egret

Mallard

White-faced Ibis

American Coot

Tree Swallow

 

(Junction)

House Sparrow

American Kestrel

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Calliope Hummingbird

European Starling

 

(Hwy 62, Road to Otter Creek Reservoir)

Spotted Towhee

Sage Thrasher

House Finch

Western Tanager 

 

(Kingston) – In sunflower patch

Lazuli Bunting

Blue Grosbeak

Virginia’s Warbler

Chipping Sparrow

 

(Road to Otter Creek, between Kingston and reservoir)

Song Sparrow

[Green-tailed Towhee – Merrill]

[Brown-headed Cowbird – Merrill]

 

(Otter Creek Reservoir)

Northern Shoveler

Brewer’s Blackbird

Clark’s Grebe

Common Merganser

Killdeer

Spotted Sandpiper

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Semi-palmated Plover

Baird’s Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Black-crowned Night-Heron (juv.)

American Avocet

 

(Road from Otter Creek – Hwy 89 to Circleville)

Solitary Sandpiper

Western Meadowlark

Common Raven

Swainson’s Hawk

[Northern Harrier – Merrill]

Wilson’s Phalarope

 

Glenn

 

 


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