[Birdtalk] Rockport

[Kristin Purdy]

Dave,

I also saw three small shorebirds at Rockport on Sunday; they were at the 
southeast corner and too far away to ID (I didn't report them in my post). I 
switched to the southeast side in the state park and wasn't much closer, but 
came to the same conclusion you did--that they were Baird's. They appeared 
very brown and somewhat attenuated in the tail area; that's all I got on 
them and so I didn't include them in my report.

Kris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Hanscom" <hanscom at cs.utah.edu>
To: "Bird Talk" <birdtalk at utahbirds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:51 PM
Subject: [Birdtalk] Rockport


>I stopped by Rockport Reservoir yesterday to see if I could find the
> Herring Gull Kristin reported recently.  Sorry to say that the gull was
> nowhere to be found.  (Probably at the Summit County Landfill, eh Kris?)
>
> The trip was definitely worthwhile, however.  First of all, a Peregrine
> Falcon was chowing down on a gull (too small to be the Herring - a
> California, no doubt) with feathers flying everywhere in the wind.  Quite
> entertaining.
>
> The other interesting sighting was a group of three peeps hanging out with
> a big flock of gulls on the shore of the southwest corner of the
> reservoir.  They looked to me like Baird's, but I'd be interested in other
> opinions if anyone else gets up that way.
>
> Dave Hanscom
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