[Birdtalk] Antelope Island - Saturday

[STEPHEN T CARLILE]

Went to Antelope Island today.  Based on reports I read earlier this week, the number of individual birds from this week's "fall out" appeared to be down, but the variety was still high.  While at Garr Ranch I ran into Lynn Christiansen.  We birded together for a while and she saw much the same as I did.  Highlights (at least for me) were female American Redstart, Calliope Hummingbird, Cassin's Vireo, the Utah "empids" and some other flycatchers, and all four peeps in the same beach patrol.  I think I am starting to figure the empids and peeps out, maybe.  As Merrill reported earlier the empids were very cooperative, making species comparisons possible.  However, there were a lot of empids that I had to pass up on any ID.  A total of 55 species seen.  Here is the list:

Causeway - 20 species

Canada Goose - 12
Northern Shoveler - 100+
Eared Grebe - 100+
American White Pelican - 1
Snowy Plover - 7
Killdeer - 12+
Black-winged Stilt - 100's
American Avocet - 100's
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Long-billed Curlew - 3
Sanderling - 2 (the Sanderling an peeps were just east of mile marker 3 on the north side of the causeway)
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 5
Western Sandpiper - 24+
Least Sandpiper - 2
Baird's Sandpiper - 12+
Wilson Phalarope - 3
California Gull - 100's
Ring-billed Gull - 24+
Franklin's Gull - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 6

Garr Ranch and environs - 35 species (as reported earlier, just sit at the picnic tables under the elms and the birds will come to you.)

Mourning Dove - 12+
Black-chinned Hummingbird - 6+
Calliope Hummingbird - 1 (trying not very successfully to get at the ranch house feeder)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird - 4
Rufous Hummingbird - 2
Olive-sided flycatcher - 2
Western Wood-Pewee - 3
Willow Flycatcher - 1
Hammond's Flycatcher - 5
Gray Flycatcher - 2
Dusky Flycatcher - 6
Cordilleran Flycatcher - 3
Say's Phoebe - 2
Cassin's Verio - 1 (east of the spring house)
Warbling Verio - 2
Common Raven - 3
Tree Swallow - 5
Violet-green Swallow - 5
Bank Swallow - 6
Barn Swallow - 50+
House Wren - 1
Hermit Thrush - 1
American Robin - 12+
European Starling - 12+
Yellow Warbler - 2
Townsend's Warbler - 6+ (some beautiful bright plumaged males)
American Redstart - 1 bright female (east of the spring house)
Wilson's Warbler - 12+
Western Tanager - 1 female
Vesper Sparrow - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 3
White-crowned Sparrow - 2
Western Meadowlark - 1
House Finch - 3

Thanks,

Stephen
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