[Birdtalk] Lots of babies and a Short-eared Owl at BRBR

[Sylvia Gray]

OK Tim, here's the list from a trip to Bear River Bird Refuge on  
Friday, May 25.

Canada Geese and babies
Gadwall
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
N.Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Lots of Western and Clark's Grebes, some head bobbing but no running  
on the water
White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Lots of Snowy Egrets
Cattle Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
N. Harrier
Swainson's Hawk
American Coot with babies
Sandhill Crane with babies
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew with babies
Franklin's Gull
California Gull
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Short-eared Owl
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Common Raven being hassled by Red-winged Blackbirds
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Cliff Swallow by the hundreds?
Barn Swallow
Marsh Wren singing its little heart out by the Visitor Center
Robin
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Sparrow

It was a lovely day. Sylvia Gray