[Birdtalk] 1/11/09 - Lake Park, City Creek Canyon, SLC Cemetery

[Jeff Bilsky]

Birded Lake Park this morning in hopes of finding a Greater White-fronted
Goose with Carl Ingwell and a brief appearance by a sneezing Colby Neuman.
No luck. Did have some REDHEADS, 25+ COMMON MERGANSERS etc. Decker Lake
didn't seem to have anything too interesting. A brief stop at Parley's Gulch
revealed almost, literally nothing. Then to City Creek to look for Winter
Wren. No luck. But we did find a Sylvia Gray and a BELTED KINGFISHER on the
way out. An unusual citing for us was a Red Tailed Hawk balancing on a wire
with its tail feathers fanned out to hold its balance. I have never seen a
RTH on a wire like this nor has Carl. A brief drive through the cemetery
found the same flock of YELLOW RUMPED WARBLERS I had yesterday and not much
else. I had a MERLIN at Sugarhouse park on my drive home. Lake Park list
below.

Location:     Lake Park
Observation date:     1/11/09
Number of species:     16

Canada Goose     X
Gadwall     X
Mallard     X
Redhead     5
Common Merganser     X
Ruddy Duck     1
Pied-billed Grebe     2
Northern Harrier     1
American Kestrel     1
American Coot     X
Ring-billed Gull     X
California Gull     X
Mourning Dove     1
American Robin     5
European Starling     X
American Goldfinch     1

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

-- 
Jeff Bilsky
Salt Lake City
jbilsky at gmail.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://secureserver.securesites.net/pipermail/birdtalk/attachments/20090111/12c4a8e3/attachment.htm