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

[B.G. Sloan]

In case anyone had problems with the long URL Tim sent, here's a shorter one:

http://tinyurl.com/sugarhouse1

Bernie Sloan

--- On Fri, 4/3/09, Tim Avery <western.tanager at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tim Avery <western.tanager at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Birdtalk] RE: Red-Breasted Merganser & Lesser Yellowlegs
> To: birdtalk at utahbirds.org
> Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 11:16 AM
> 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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