[Birdtalk] Black Phoebe nesting in Grand County

[Ryan O'Donnell]

A quick report from the road - I found a successful BLACK PHOEBE nest in
Grand County today.  I flushed four or five youngsters from the nest
over the south fork of Mill Creek, near Moab.  According to the Utah
Division of Wildlife Resources, Black Phoebes' "breeding distribution in
Utah is limited to the Mojave Desert in the southwestern corner of the
state," two or three hundred miles away.
 
Here is a shot of one of the fledglings:
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/BLPH1.jpg
 
And here is one of the nest, after the fledglings flushed across the
narrow creek and perched in the willows there:
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/Tsirtalis/BLPHnest.jpg
 
Good birding,
Ryan
 
Ryan P. O'Donnell
Department of Biology and the Ecology Center
Utah State University
5305 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-5305
 
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