[Birdtalk] Tooele County on Sunday (no rarities)

[Eric Huish]

A late report. I drove out to visit my sister in Tooele on Sunday and stopped to bird a few spots while I was out. 

I stopped for a few minutes at 7:00 am to listen to the morning chorus in the Five Mile Pass area (on the Tooele County side). 


Location: Five Mile Pass - Tooele Co. UT
Observation date: 5/31/09
Number of species: 7

Long-billed Curlew 3
Broad-tailed Hummingbird 1 Heard Only
Common Raven 1 Heard Only
Horned Lark 9
Sage Thrasher 1
Brewer's Sparrow 1 Heard Only
Western Meadowlark 6

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I birded for a little over an hour at Clover Springs around 8 am. 
Directions to Clover Springs - http://www.utahbirds.org/counties/tooele/Clover%20Springs.htm


Location: Clover Springs - Tooele Co. UT
Observation date: 5/31/09
Number of species: 26

American Kestrel 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 3
Mourning Dove 1 Heard Only
Broad-tailed Hummingbird 1
Empidonax sp. 1
Ash-throated Flycatcher 1
Western Kingbird 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Black-billed Magpie 1
Mountain Chickadee 2
House Wren 4
Mountain Bluebird 1
American Robin 5
European Starling 3
Cedar Waxwing 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Western Tanager 1
Green-tailed Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 5
Lazuli Bunting 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Bullock's Oriole 1
Cassin's Finch 1
Lesser Goldfinch 5
American Goldfinch 2

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I scoped Rush Lake from highway 36 around 9 am.


Location: Rush Lake Area - Tooele Co. UT
Observation date: 5/31/09
Number of species: 23

Gadwall 4
American Wigeon 2
Mallard 52
Cinnamon Teal 3
Northern Shoveler 2
Northern Pintail 2
Green-winged Teal 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Kestrel 2
American Coot 1
Killdeer 1
Black-necked Stilt 7
American Avocet 7
Willet 6
Wilson's Phalarope 3
gull sp. 35
Barn Swallow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Western Meadowlark 5 Heard Only
Yellow-headed Blackbird 16
Brewer's Blackbird 5
Bullock's Oriole 1 Heard Only

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On my way home (7 pm) I stopped at James Walter Fitzgerald WMA. Just scoped from the parking area for about a half hour.  Best birds were a bunch of Common Nighthawks, Canvasback, Loggerhead Shrike and Cranes. 
 Directions to JWFWMA - http://www.utahbirds.org/counties/tooele/JamesWalterFitzgeraldWMA.htm


Location: James W Fitzgerald WMA - Tooele Co. UT
Observation date: 5/31/09
Number of species: 26

Canada Goose 7
Gadwall 11
American Wigeon 2
Northern Shoveler 1
Northern Pintail 2
Canvasback 2
Redhead 2
Eared Grebe 6
Western Grebe 2
Great Blue Heron 1
Northern Harrier 1
American Coot 3
Sandhill Crane 5
American Avocet 2
Mourning Dove 3
Common Nighthawk 7
Western Kingbird 1
Loggerhead Shrike 1
Common Raven 2
Violet-green Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 2
swallow sp. 10
European Starling 12
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Western Meadowlark 1 Heard Only
Brewer's Blackbird 8


 


Eric Huish 
Pleasant Grove UT 
poorwill_ at hotmail.com 
801-360-8777 
 
 
 
 


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