[Birdtalk] TENNESSEE WARBLER, Calliope Hummingbird...

[Tim Avery]

Late yesterday afternoon, I was dragged out of my house and ended up in the upper portion of East Canyon above East Canyon Resort.  I birded along the river that flows along the dirt road that heads south (to the left), right before the pavement turns west and heads up towards Big Mountain Pass from East Canyon.  And vice versa from Big Mountain Pass heading towards East Canyon Reservoir, the dirt road heads south (to the right) as the road bends to the north towards the reservoir.  It was birding that typified montane summer birding in Utah at its finest!  However, the highlight was not the many mountain birds twittering through the tops of the cottonwoods, along the creek in the willows or across the hillsides in the oak... No, the highlight was a BEEE-autiful male TENNESSEE WARBLER singing up a storm just to the south of the bridge over the river that leads onto private property, less than a 100 yards down the dirt road from the main paved road.  When I heard the bird singing I thought, oh great, another Orange-crowned Warbler tyrign to confuse me (I hear 3 or 4 each year that sing notes that sound very similar to a TEWA).  However, the bird kept singing and when I found it, I was pleasantly surprised to see a clean gray and white bird, with a greenish back and white undertail.

This has to be a rather late date for this species, but judging how migration has been iffy and a bit on the late side this year, I'm not all that surprised.

Location:     East Canyon, Morgan Co.
Observation date:     6/8/08
Number of species:     42

Mallard     3
Great Blue Heron     1
Red-tailed Hawk     1
American Kestrel     1
Mourning Dove     2
Common Nighthawk     1
Black-chinned Hummingbird     2
CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD     1 (male perched on top of a willow along the creek)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird     4
Northern Flicker     1
Western Wood-Pewee     2
Willow Flycatcher     1
Dusky Flycatcher     1
Warbling Vireo     2
Common Raven     1
Tree Swallow     30
Violet-green Swallow     5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     4
Cliff Swallow     50
Barn Swallow     3
Townsend's Solitaire     1
American Robin     5
GRAY CATBIRD    1 (was heard several times in teh vicinity of the bridge)
European Starling     3
Cedar Waxwing     20
TENNESSEE WARBLER     1 
Orange-crowned Warbler     2
Virginia's Warbler     3
Yellow Warbler     25
Yellow-rumped Warbler     4
Wilson's Warbler     2
Western Tanager     7
Spotted Towhee     1
FOX SPARROW    5 (singing everywhere along the hillside in the scrub oak...)
Song Sparrow     10
Black-headed Grosbeak     3
Lazuli Bunting     2
Western Meadowlark     1
Brewer's Blackbird     5
Bullock's Oriole     2
House Finch     2
American Goldfinch     8

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Good Birding

Tim
Salt Lake City, Utah
tanager at timaverybirding.com
http://www.timaverybirding.com
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