[Birdtalk] Northern Goshawk in Sugarhouse

[Tim Avery]

This afternoon as I fulfilled my hour a day of birding for the remainder of 
the year, I decided to watch birds from the comfort of my parents hot tub in 
Sugarhouse.  As I was admiring the berries in their hawthorne and wondering 
why they haven't had Bohemian Waxwings yet I caught some movement through 
the tree.  As the bird came into sight I stared at a large accipiter as it 
powered its way 15 feet off the ground and directly over my head before 
continuing up the block.  I was very pleased as the bird was a juvenile 
NORTHERN GOSHAWK, only the 2nd time I have seen one at their house, the last 
being almost 10 years ago and an adult bird.  This capped off the best day I 
have had from their yard in recent history when I had 16 species yesterday 
morning seen from the front window of the house.  Despite numerous flocks of 
Cedar Waxwings over the last 2 weeks I have only had Bohemian's about 3 
blocks away... Keeping my fingers crossed for that new yard bird!

Below is a list from yesterday morning.

> Rock Pigeon - Columba livia     3
> Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura     1
> Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens     1
> Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus     1
> Western Scrub-Jay - Aphelocoma californica     2
> Black-billed Magpie - Pica hudsonia     1
> Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus     2
> Mountain Chickadee - Poecile gambeli     1
> American Robin - Turdus migratorius     14
> European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris     50
> Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum     42
> Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis     4
> House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus     7
> Lesser Goldfinch - Carduelis psaltria     2
> American Goldfinch - Carduelis tristis     1
> House Sparrow - Passer domesticus     30
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Good Birding

Tim
Salt Lake City, Utah
tanager at timaverybirding.com
http://www.timaverybirding.com