[Birdtalk] Grasshoppper Sparrow, Golden Eagle nest, etc. in southern Cache County

[Ryan O'Donnell]

Yesterday Keith Archiald, Craig Fosdick, and I conducted a 4.75 mile
point count on private land near Avon, Cache County, for the Little Bear
Conservation Alliance.  We detected a total of 47 species.  The
highlights were a single singing GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, a Vesper Sparrow
nest with three eggs, and a Golden Eagle nest with one chick in a
cottonwood tree along the creek.  Here is a list of the birds we saw
and/or heard:
 
Canada Goose 3
Mallard 2
Ring-necked Pheasant 5
Turkey Vulture 2
Red-tailed Hawk 5
Golden Eagle 3
American Kestrel 1
Franklin's Gull 10
California Gull 14
Mourning Dove 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Western Wood-Pewee 1
Dusky Flycatcher 15
Warbling Vireo 27
Black-billed Magpie 8
American Crow 19
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6
Bank Swallow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 4
House Wren 4
American Robin 26
Gray Catbird 1
Cedar Waxwing 9
Orange-crowned Warbler 5
Yellow Warbler 23
MacGillivray's Warbler 5
Yellow-breasted Chat 6
Western Tanager 7
Green-tailed Towhee 18
Spotted Towhee 14
Chipping Sparrow 11
Brewer's Sparrow 26
Vesper Sparrow 10
Lark Sparrow 2
Grasshopper Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 3
Black-headed Grosbeak 20
Lazuli Bunting 72
Red-winged Blackbird 3
Western Meadowlark 12
Brewer's Blackbird 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 17
Bullock's Oriole 2
Pine Siskin 1
American Goldfinch 10

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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