[Birdtalk] Eastern Kingbird, Bullock's Orioles in SLC

[Tim Avery]

This afternoon (05/09) Jeff Bilsky and I puttered around a few locales along the south shore of the Great Salt Lake.  There were a few interesting sightings.  Along the frontage road near Lee's Creek and 1-80 was a lone EASTERN KINGBIRD.  Several Nigh-Herons were seen in this area as well.  Further to the east along the frontage road were 3 LARK SPARROW and a few WESTERN KINGBIRD.  

We checked out the International Center, which wasn't overly birdy.  There were a few WESTERN KINGBIRD around, as well as a handful of YELLOW and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER.  Perhaps the best bireds, were 4 BULLOCK'S ORIOLES, a new addition to the checklist being compiled on eBird.org

The low-point of the day came near the Unisource building at the IC, where we saw a hen Mallard standing in the road, making a strange quacking noise.  I stopped the car and could hear what sounded like the squeaks of ducklings.  Sure enough in the storm drain were 8 little fuzzballs that couldn't have been older than a week.  I fashioned a scoop out of a stick and part of a water bottle, and we managed to pull 6 of the ducklings from the death trap.  Unfortunately, 2 of the birds didn't want to have anything to do with it, and we had to leave without saving them.  

I will be posting a bunch of pictures later this weekend, 

Good Birding

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