[Birdtalk] Bear River Shorebird Workshop - trip list - 05/16/08

[birderbetsy at comcast.net]

I sent our trip list back to Farmington with participants to turn in to Neka, but I can probably remember MOST of what we saw.  As I posted on Friday - the big excitement was finding the BOBOLINK...  We saw 65-70 species.  Shorebirds were mostly gone, but BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER is always fun.  A few marbled godwits and dowitchers were still present.  We didn't see any peeps.  Large number of Forster's terns - the most I've seen in one area since I moved here - were in Unit 5 and the Willard Spur; and quite a few black terns as well - fun to see those!

Canada goose - lots of broods
Tundra swan - 3 birds on the back/west part of the auto tour loop
Gadwall
American wigeon
Mallard
Cinnamon teal
Northern shoveler
Northern pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Lesser scaup
Ruddy duck
Ring-necked pheasant
Pied-billed grebe
Eared grebe
Western grebe
Clark's grebe
American white pelican
Double-crested cormorant
Great blue heron
Great egret
Snowy egret
Cattle egret
Black-crowned night-heron
White-faced ibis
Turkey vulture
Northern harrier
Red-tailed hawk
American kestrel
Virginia rail
Sora
American coot
Sandhill crane
Black-bellied plover
Killdeer
Black-necked stilt
American avocet
Willet
Spotted sandpiper
Long-billed curlew
Marbled godwit
Long-billed dowitcher
Wilson's phalarope
Franklin's gull
California gull
Forster's tern
Black tern
Rock pigeon
Mourning dove
Western kingbird
Common raven
Horned lark
Tree swallow
Northern rough-winged swallow
Cliff swallow
Barn swallow
Marsh wren
European starling
Yellow warbler
Yellow-rumped warbler
Vesper sparrow
Song sparrow
BOBOLINK
Red-winged blackbird
Western meadowlark
Yellow-headed blackbird
Brewer's blackbird
Brown-headed cowbird
House sparrow

Betsy Beneke
Perry, Utah
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