[Birdtalk] Birds on Promontory Road

[Betsy_Beneke at fws.gov]

We have a bunch of folks here at the refuge this week for a shorebird
management workshop, and one of the women is an old friend of mine from
Minnesota...well, she's not THAT old...and she came with a wish list of
birds.  I decided a trip to Promontory was the ticket for a good share of
them, but what I found out was that the birds I THOUGHT would be there were
mostly not.  We caught a few birds in migration, which was fun.  Deanne got
6 lifers, which I thought was pretty darn good for August.  It was pretty
quiet out there, overall, but some of the birds we saw were:

Burrowing owl
Western wood-pewee
Dusky flycatcher
Say's phoebe
Western kingbird
Townsend's warbler
Western tanager
Lazuli bunting
Lark sparrow
LOTS of mourning doves
Lots of turkey vultures
35 common nighthawks in a group - heading NORTH
NO chukar, short-eared owl, MAGPIE!!!, rock or canyon wren, Brewer's
sparrow or sage thrasher - which surprised me.

Was a fun evening, and after a little rain shower there was a huge rainbow
over the entire valley - gorgeous!

Betsy Beneke