[Birdtalk] Sherwood Hills Report

[Kristin Purdy]

Umm...does anyone know what a flucatcher is?
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From: "Kristin Purdy" <kristinpurdy at comcast.net>
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Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:00 PM
Subject: [Birdtalk] Sherwood Hills Report


> Jack Rensel and I birded the Sherwood Hills Resort and Conference Center 
> in Wellsville, Cache County, today. The trees are just budding out and the 
> area isn't yet at peak passerine migration, but it was still a pleasant 
> walk. Dusky Flucatchers, Warbling Vireos, Barn Swallows, Yellow Warblers 
> and Chipping Sparrows were the predominant singers. Here are the others 
> that I remember:
>
> NORTHERN GOSHAWK*
> Peregrine Falcon**
> Broad-tailed Hummingbird
> Downy Woodpecker
> Northern Flicker
> Dusky Flycatcher
> Warbling Vireo
> Black-billed Magpie
> American Crow (on nest)
> Common Raven
> Violet-green Swallow
> Cliff Swallow
> Barn Swallow
> Black-capped Chickadee
> Hermit Thrush
> American Robin
> Orange-crowned Warbler
> Yellow Warbler
> Yellow-rumped Warbler
> MacGillivray's Warbler
> Chipping Sparrow
> Dark-eyed Junco
> Black-headed Grosbeak
> Lazuli Bunting
> Brown-headed Cowbird
> Cassin's Finch
> Pine Siskin
> American Goldfinch
>
> *Flyover by what appeared to be a young (brown) bird. The bird headed 
> upslope into the fir above the resort.
>
> **The most surprising bird of the day. Sherwood Hills definitely does not 
> offer Peregrine habitat; the resort is nestled on Mountain Maple-covered 
> foothills to the Wellsville Range. Jack and I emerged from the maple onto 
> a small open patch of sagebrush and a medium-sized falcon flushed from the 
> ground. We saw it for just a few seconds. Both of us concluded the bird 
> was a falcon and that it was gray-blue, not brown. We could only assume 
> the bird was nesting on the high rocky cliffs above the resort and making 
> good use of the ground squirrel population in the patch of sagebrush.
>
> Sherwood Hills is located between mile marker 12 and 13 of US-89/91.
>
> Kris
>
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