[Birdtalk] GSL Birdfest Oquirrh trip

[Neville, Ann (KUCC)]

This is the first time I've READ my emails from bird festival let alone
had time to post anything - obviously Tim doesn't need sleep.

 

Anyway - other that what Tim had on the Inland Sea Shorebird Reserve
from the Marathon birding and Saturday trip, we saw last Thursday a
MOCKING BIRD.  We all got great looks at the 4 WHIMBREL.

 

Sunday and Monday (today) we did a behind the gates up in the Oquirrhs
Bob Huntington and Steve Carr are much better birders and helped me out
with those pesky mountain birds.  Our route took us back via I-80 and so
we stopped at the interstate ponds at the Saltair exit.  Today we took
the pipeline road (Kennecott property) from Coon Canyon to Little Valley
- more deer than new birds.  These aren't in any great order and had no
surprises - I'm sure I forgot one or two.

 

1.	Cormorant (there is a nesting colony on the I-80 ponds directly
across from the marina)
2.	eared grebe
3.	Canada goose (with goslings)
4.	Mallard
5.	Gadwall
6.	Shovelers
7.	Coot
8.	great blue heron
9.	Killdeer
10.	Avocet
11.	Black-necked stilt
12.	CA gull
13.	Forester's tern
14.	Northern Harrier
15.	Red-tail hawk (3 separate nests!)
16.	Swainson's hawk
17.	Goshawk
18.	American Kestrel
19.	Peregrine falcon
20.	Turkey Vulture
21.	Wild Turkey
22.	Cliff swallow
23.	Barn swallow
24.	Rough-winged swallow
25.	white throated swift
26.	Broad-tailed hummingbird
27.	black-headed grosbeak
28.	Hammond's flycatcher
29.	Western kingbird
30.	Cordilleran flycatcher
31.	Plumbeous vireo
32.	Warbling vireo
33.	Yellow warbler
34.	Yellow-rumped warbler
35.	Bullocks oriole
36.	Western Tanager
37.	Spotted towhee
38.	Green towhee
39.	Dark-eyed junco
40.	Chipping sparrow
41.	Lark sparrow
42.	Rock wren
43.	black-capped chickadee
44.	Downy woodpecker (although I was the only one who saw it)
45.	robin
46.	Mountain bluebird
47.	Lazuli bunting
48.	Raven
49.	Magpie
50.	Meadowlark
51.	Red-winged blackbird
52.	Yellow-headed blackbird
53.	Brewer's blackbird
54.	Brown-headed cowbird
55.	Starling
56.	Rock pigeon
57.	Mourning dove
58.	House finch
59.	House sparrow

 

 

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