[Birdtalk] St. George Bird Fest Recap

[Jeff Bilsky]

A quick recap of what I saw in St. George this weekend.

Arrived Friday night and did a quick visit to Hurricane - Sand Hollow /
Sewage Ponds.

1/30
SAND HOLLOW
2 Cormorants
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Ruddy Duck
Rock Wren
Says Phoebe

SEWAGE PONDS
24 Double Crested Cormorants flew in at Sunset - it was pretty cool, not
sure if a Neotropic was among them
Bewick's Wren
Ruby Crowned Kinglet

1/31
LYTLE RANCH and AREA
Prairie Falcon (on post on road past Santa Clara)
Ferruginous Hawk (ditto)
Black Phoebe
Ladder Backed Woodpecker
Phainopepla
Red Naped Sapcucker
Belted Kingfisher
Sharp Shinned Hawk
Cactus Wren
Rock Wren
Bewick's Wren
Yellow Rumped Warbler
Verdin
etc etc

After Lytle, headed over to Tonaquint - list below, sorry for my lazy X's.
Location:     Tonaquint Nature Center
Observation date:     1/31/09
Number of species:     34

Canada Goose     X
Wood Duck     4
Mallard     X
Green-winged Teal     X
Gambel's Quail     X
Great Blue Heron     1
Bald Eagle     1
Sharp-shinned Hawk     X
Cooper's Hawk     X
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk     X
American Kestrel     2
Sora     X
American Coot     X
Mourning Dove     X
Greater Roadrunner     1
Northern Flicker     1
Say's Phoebe     4
Common Raven     X
Bewick's Wren     X
Marsh Wren     X
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     1
American Robin     X
European Starling     X
Yellow-rumped Warbler     X
Abert's Towhee     X
Song Sparrow     X
Lincoln's Sparrow     X
White-crowned Sparrow     X
Red-winged Blackbird     X
Great-tailed Grackle     X
House Finch     X
Lesser Goldfinch     X
American Goldfinch     X

Sunday was spent on the Kolob Road of Zion

Location:     Zion National Park, Kolob Road
Observation date:     2/1/09
Number of species:     17

American Wigeon     5
Mallard     X
Ring-necked Duck     X
Bufflehead     1
Cooper's Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk     2
Golden Eagle     2
Western Scrub-Jay     X
Common Raven     2
Juniper Titmouse     X
Bushtit     1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     2
Western Bluebird     4
Townsend's Solitaire     3
Spotted Towhee     1
White-crowned Sparrow     X
Dark-eyed Junco     X

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Good Birding!
-- 
Jeff Bilsky
Salt Lake City
jbilsky at gmail.com
www.endlesswilderness.com
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