[Birdtalk] RE: Red-Breasted Merganser & Lesser Yellowlegs

[Tim Avery]

Carl, et all,

Last year as many of you may remember, Sugarhouse Park had quite an array of
"good birds", for a  city park.  Between March and May I spent quite a few
mornings wandering around the pond and along the river seeing what I could
turn up  The sightings were entered into ebird under the hotspot --
Sugarhouse Park & Pond -- The complete list can be seen here:

http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?step=saveChoices&getLocations=hotspots&parentState=US-UT&speciesCodes=&bMonth=01&bYear=1900&eMonth=12&eYear=2009&reportType=location&hotspots=L460104&continue.x=43&continue.y=6&continue=Continue

(you may have to copy the entire thing into a browser since it stretches
onto more than one line.)

In any event some of the stranger birds seen included:

American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser (which was present for 2 weeks!)
Eared Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Northern Harrier
Spotted Sandpiper
RED-EYED VIREO
Orange-crowned, Virginia's, Yellow and Yellow-rumped Warbler
Chipping, Brewer's and Lincoln Sparrow

Jeff Bilsky had a White-faced Ibis to boot!!!

I know that there are a number of people on eBird who have created
"personal" locations for the park, as opposed to using the hotspot created
in eBird, so there is probably more data, that isn't even being put into the
system.

Perhaps the best bird to ever be seen at Sugarhouse Park was an adult male
BLACK SCOTER between October 19-29, 1990:

http://utahbirds.org/RecCom/1990/1990_08Sum.htm

It just goes to show that you don't have to go far from home in the city to
see some great birds.  And Sugarhouse Park is probably one of the more
under-birded locations in the city!  Thanks Carl and Keeli for your reports.

Good Birding

Tim
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