[Birdtalk] Utah county western kingbird

[Lu Giddings]

Early Friday afternoon a western kingbird was observed on private property
about one mile north of the Spanish Fork airport. Unexpected as it was, I
had pretty good looks at it for about 30-60 seconds in decent light at about
15 yards. It was perched on a wire with several house finches beside it. It
was much larger than the house finches and - more or less - uniformly gray
on top, with a creamy yellow belly and a black tail with very distinct white
outers when it flew. Bryan Shirley and I looked for it again yesterday
morning and were not able to find it. Either it finally decided to fly south
in the face of Friday afternoon's storm, or it's buried beneath a layer of
ice and snow in Spanish Fork. I'm hoping for the former. Funny how something
as common as a western kingbird can be so special at the wrong time of year.

Lu Giddings
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