[Birdtalk] Provo Airport Dike

[Eric Huish]

Went around the Provo Airport Dike again this mornig.  Highlights were 7 
Orange-crowned Warblers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 15 Pectoral Sandpipers, 4 
Least Sandpipers,  200 Dowitchers, 2 Merlin and a Common Tern.

The mud flat was drying quickly but over the last two weeks seems to be 
filling back in.  I hope it is there for our big sit on the 14th.  Our 
record Big Sit was the only other year we had a mud flat there during the 
Sit.

Before the airport dike I was at River Lane during the height of the wind 
storm.  Not much along the road but I enjoyed walking the beach.  I felt 
like I was at the ocean.  It was very windy. The lake had white-caps.  The 
teal skimming across the surface of the waves and the coots bobbing up then 
disappearing behind waves in my imagination were Scoters.  There were terns, 
gulls, pelicans and a cormorant fighting the wind and a Harrier, which I 
would usually characterize as floating around, was zooming around.  The Tide 
was even coming in.  Water was filling onto dry low spots on the beach.  I 
stood on a slab of concrete as the 'tide' filled in around me.


Eric Huish
Pleasant Grove UT
poorwill_ at hotmail.com
801-360-8777

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