[Birdtalk] West Desert Weekend Birding

[Colby Neuman]

Hi all,

Tim Avery, my dad, and I did some birding around the northern West Desert
for parts of the weekend.  We didn't see anything too unusual, but
highlights for me included 2 AMERICAN REDSTARTS, 4 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES, 1
INDIGO BUNTING, 1 Bobolink, 2 Common Grackles, 1 Eastern Kingbird, 1 Gray
Catbird, mulitple chats, and lots of other migrants...

I did manage a digi-binoc pic of the bunting that can be found at the
following link...

http://picasaweb.google.com/colby.neuman/WestDesert

Friday - 5/18

Lucin

1 Barn Owl
1 Yellow-breasted Chat

Rabbit & Owl Springs

1 Gray Flycatcher
1 Hammond's Flycatcher
1 Short-eared Owl

Ranch - North Trees

1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH
1 female AMERICAN REDSTART

Ranch - South Trees

1 Virginia's Warbler
1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH
1 male AMERICAN REDSTART
1 singing Bobolink

Saturday - 5/19

Lucin

1 flyover Osprey
1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH
1 Common Grackle

Ranch - North Trees

1 Yellow-breasted Chat

Ranch - South Trees - we were not really able to bird due to cattle being in
the trees, but we did manage these birds...

1 Gray Catbird
1 Green-tailed Towhee

Fish Springs NWR

1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH

Sunday - 5/20

Fish Springs NWR

1 Yellow-breasted Chat
1 male INDIGO BUNTING

I think the combination of birding Rabbit & Owl Springs, Lucin, the ranch's
different sets of trees (with permission), and Fish Springs NWR (for those
that are really ambitious) is a pretty solid migrant trap tour for a day,
and I think it would almost certainly produce some good birds on a somewhat
regular basis (whatever that means).  Due to multiple unexpected
circumstances this weekend, we were only able to do this once this weekend.
Let me know if you would be interested in joining us this fall if we
organize something.

Colby
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