[Birdtalk] CERULEAN WARBLER...

[Merrill Webb]

Birders,
OK.  This is in response to your request, Tim.  Saturday I was birding in the Mineral Mtns. (Beaver County) and at Kaufman's Ranch (Millard County).  I saw a total of 53 species in the two locations, but will list only the better ones, mostly because most birders don't want to be bothered with Starlings and House Sparrows. At the top of a peak in the Mineral Mtns. (7800 feet elevation) I observed a Cassin's Vireo feeding in a mountain mahogany bush.  Prior to that a flock of Clark's Nutcracker (26) flew over going west toward who knows what isolated mountain range in the west desert?  At the ranch I counted five Pectoral Sandpipers plus a female American Redstart and 20-30 Yellow-rumped Warblers.  At Antelope Springs there was still a Common Yellowthroat present.  I observed no raptors at all--none, which was quite disappointing considering the elevation in the mountains where I started.
Merrill Webb


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Tim Avery <tanager at timaverybirding.com> wrote:

> From: Tim Avery <tanager at timaverybirding.com>
> Subject: [Birdtalk] CERULEAN WARBLER...
> To: birdtalk at utahbirds.org
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 8:54 AM
> Let me start off by saying that this is not a report of a
> Cerulean Warbler...  THIS IS NOT A REPORT.  
> 
> This email is the kind of email that gets many Utah birders
> excited to get ou in the field and chasing rare birds, and
> it seem slike its getting to that time of year again where
> posts start to dwindle, and many birds go un-reported, and
> left unknown to the general public.  Even if you are jsut
> posting about birds in your backyard, or on a quick trip to
> the park, that information is often useful to at least one
> other person on this list.  Inofrmation about the first
> sighting of an Oregon Dark-eyed Junco each fall is
> interestign to see how it compares to other years, or the
> last report of a Rufous Hummingbird each fall.  No matter
> how mundane a sighting may be to you, it may hold some
> interest ot others on the list.
> 
> I often get phone calls from birders telling me about a
> bird here or a bird there, and I am very thankful for all
> those direct calls.  But I think some of these calls would
> also be interesting to the general public.  Take for
> instance a very reliabel report of a PINYON JAY in Salt Lake
> County yesterday.  This is a bird that in the the county is
> hard if not impossible to get most years.  
> 
> And rumor has it that yesterday, both a CLAY-COLORED
> SPARROW and a SWAMP SPARROW were seen at the Salt Lake
> International Center.  Whether or not this is true I
> don't know, but both those birds would draw some
> attention from birders around Salt Lake, and maybe even to
> the north and south.
> 
> 
> In any event what I am getting at, is please post your
> sightings!  People who complain about getting emails about
> starlings and this and that have the option to DELETE, thats
> the great thing about email.  So please  please please share
> those sightings!
> 
> Good Birding
> 
> Tim
> Salt Lake City, Utah
> tanager at timaverybirding.com
> http://www.timaverybirding.com
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