[Birdtalk] Birding lower Uintas from Woodland

[Dick O'Brien]

We very much enjoyed birding the lower Uintas this morning where we encountered 37 species. We started at Woodland, Utah and birded along two short trails off of Route 35, which is the road to Wolf Creek Pass. Our first trail entrance was 0.3 miles from the bridge that crosses the Provo River where there is a large green mailbox on the right and a good dirt road that goes about a mile to the national forest trailhead to Willow Canyon. From there the trail goes through large aspen groves, sage flats and lush meadows along a small stream and continues into dense conifer forest. Our second trail was a mile or two further east on Route 35 where there is a large parking lot on the left side of the road. A very short walk over the hill from the parking lot takes you to a network of beaver ponds and a beautiful trail along a stream in conifers. 

Birds seen included:

Great Blue Heron
Red-tailed Hawks
Sandhill Cranes
American Kestrels
Northern Flickers
Red-napped Sapsucker
Western Wood Peewees
Cardilleran Flycatchers
Song Sparrows
Lincoln Sparrow
Juncos
Green-tailed Towhees
Black-capped Chicadees
Mountain Chicadee
Red-breasted Nuthatches
Western Tanagers
Yellow-rumped Warblers
Virginia Warblers
Tennessee Warblers
Yellow Warblers
Lazuli Buntings
Bue-gray Gnatcatchers
House Wrens
American Robins
Magpies
Cliff Swallows
Tree Swallows
Mourning Doves
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbirds
Starlings
Scrub Jay
Cedar Waxwings
Mallards
Spotted Sandpipers
Catbirds
American Goldfinch
Dusky Flycatcher (?)

Deedee & Dick O'Brien



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