[Birdtalk] Yesterday's Bridgerland Audubon field trip

[Jason Pietrzak]

Here is Saturday's complete bird list Ryan was referring to (or as
complete as I have written down)... Since Ryan already highlighted the
most interesting sightings, I won't bother to elaborate on where you
can find Mallards etc...

Should be a lot of new arrivals in the coming weeks!

Canada Goose
Mallard
Bufflehead
Red-breasted Merganser
Ring-necked Pheasant
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
American Coot
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow


On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Ryan O'Donnell <ryan at biology.usu.edu> wrote:
> Yesterday I joined about twelve other birders on the Bridgerland Audubon
> Society's field trip around south Cache County.  Someone in our group
> kept a complete list of birds seen; hopefully they can post a follow-up
> to this.  In the meantime, I thought I'd share some of the highlights
> since no one else has.
>
> We started at the Miller sewage ponds (private property) in Hyrum, which
> were not very busy.  The highlight here was a large raft of BUFFLEHEAD,
> about 30 or 40 I'd guess.  We then went to Hyrum Reservoir.  Several
> COMMON LOONS were on the water, with a flock of gulls that were too
> distant to identify.  The highlight here was a single HORNED GREBE.
> Next up was another patch of private land in Paradise, along the Little
> Bear River.  This was a regular spot for owls, but we couldn't find any.
> Birding was slow here, but we saw several Kestrels, Robins, Chickadees,
> and Cedar Waxwings.  Finally, we drove west from Paradise and then north
> into Wellsville along back roads in search of hawks.  We saw many
> Red-tailed Hawks and one soaring ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, the first of the
> season for many of us.  The field trip then broke up, but the car I was
> in took a side trip to Sue's Ponds.  Shorebirds were way down, with only
> about 18 Long-billed Dowitchers remaining (not even a Killdeer, if I
> recall correctly).  Gulls were about normal, with maybe 100 California
> Gulls, about 10 Ring-billed Gulls and 4 HERRING GULLS.  The four Herring
> Gulls were a season high so far for me; they were all first-winter
> birds.
>
> 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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