[Birdtalk] GSL Bird Festival Marathon trip

Fri May 15 22:27:21 MDT 2009

Here is the list of the bird sightings on the first Deseret Ranch field trip 
(all seen) 105 species:

Bird List
Deseret Ranch
Great Salt Lake Bird Festival
May 14, 2009

Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Wild Turkey
Common Loon
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Sora
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Burrowing Owl
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Western Wood-Pewee
Gray Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Mountain Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Rock Wren
House Wren
American Dipper
Mountain Bluebird
American Robin
Sage Thrasher
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Green-tailed Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Bill Fenimore
801-699-9330 Cellular

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Stackhouse" <westwings at sisna.com>
To: "send message to net birdtalk" <birdtalk at utahbirds.org>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 3:11 PM
Subject: [Birdtalk] GSL Bird Festival Marathon trip

> O.K.. Tim here's my report from yesterday's Marathon trip - sorry I 
> didn't get this posted earlier, but I was still recovering ;-)
>
> We had a great trip, with the usual mix of surprises, both with 
> unexpected finds and frustrating misses. I decided to try a "big day" 
> strategy of making the route more compact, cutting miles driven to 
> maximize birding time and minimize "windshield" time., so we did a  route 
> that was entirely "local." Did it work? Well, we had a great  day, saw 
> lots of good birds, and ended up with almost exactly the same  number of 
> species as we always get on this trip. Technically, I think  the 135 
> species is a record for this trip, but only by one - since I  think the 
> we've gotten 133 or 134 every year on this trip, in spite of  many 
> different routes, including last year, when Tim Avery led the  trip. 
> Weird.
>
> We started at Farmington Bay, to get going quickly after our 6 a.m. 
> meeting at the Davis Co. Fairgrounds (personally, having just arrived 
> from Mexico a few hours before then, I was freezing). There we did  well 
> on waterfowl and got all four of our expected grebes. "Surprises"  at 
> Farmington Bay were a GREAT EGRET, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, and a RED- BREASTED 
> MERGANSER. We also saw some BUFFLEHEAD still lingering.  Misses there 
> included pintail, wigeon, and snipe, none of which we  would see all day.
>
> After Farmington, we went to Antelope Island, where we ran into a 
> shorebird bonanza on the causeway - providing our best finds of the  day. 
> Between MM 5 and the first "bridge," on the north side of the  causeway 
> was a great concentration of shorebirds, many too far out to  be 
> identified, but included 100's of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 1000's of 
> SANDERLING, dozens of RED KNOT, also WESTERN, LEAST and BAIRD'S 
> SANDPIPERS, LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. But the  two 
> "best" birds there were RUDDY TURNSTONE and DUNLIN, both in full  breeding 
> plumage. We birded the north end of the island, where we got  the usual 
> suspects, and a somewhat surprising GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE in  the sagebrush 
> near Ladyfinger Point. before heading north.
>
> Our next stop was Willard Bay, where we found many of the normal 
> songbirds, but nothing really unusual. Warbler numbers and species  seemed 
> really low to me. From there we went to Mantua, were the  reservoir was 
> dead, but we did pick up EVENING GROSBEAK and PINE  SISKIN in town. We 
> then went south, and passed along the bench at  Pleasant View, where we 
> picked up a few birds, including CALIFORNIA  QUAIL, BLACK-CHINNED 
> HUMMINGBIRD, and WARBLING VIREO. We went over the  North Ogden Divide to 
> Pineview Reservoir, where we added our only  TURKEY VULTURE of the day and 
> FOX SPARROW.
>
> We continued south, with a brief stop at a very quiet Snow Basin, and 
> went to East Canyon where we picked up COMMON LOON, and over the pass  at 
> Big Mountain, where we added some mountain species (pretty quiet  overall, 
> there, too). We finished daylight birding by Little Dell  Reservoir, where 
> we added VIRGINIA'S WARBLER and SPOTTED TOWHEE.
>
> We did some night birding back over Big Mountain, where we had some  good 
> luck. We had three young GREAT-HORNED OWLS and their mother on a  nest, 
> audible LONG-EARED OWL and COMMON POORWILL near the summit, and  several 
> enthusiastically calling FLAMMULATED OWLS, all of whom, in  spite of being 
> very close, even flying across the road above us,  eluded view in dense 
> evergreens. After about an hour of effort in the  plummeting temperatures, 
> we gave up trying to get that one off the  audible list and onto the 
> visual list.
>
> I finished the day much as I started it, freezing cold ;-)
>
> But a fun time was had by all,with a great bird list at the end. The 
> actual list follows, let me know if you'd like details on any of these 
> finds.
>
>
> Mark Stackhouse
>
>
>
> Canada Goose
>
> Gadwall
>
> Mallard
>
> Blue-winged Teal
>
> Cinnamon Teal
>
> Northern Shoveler
>
> Green-winged Teal
>
> Redhead
>
> Lesser Scaup
>
> Bufflehead
>
> Red-breasted Merganser
>
> Ruddy Duck
>
> Chukar
>
> Ring-necked Pheasant
>
> California Quail
>
> Common Loon
>
> Pied-billed Grebe
>
> Eared Grebe
>
> Western Grebe
>
> Clark's Grebe
>
> American White Pelican
>
> Double-crested Cormorant
>
> Great Blue Heron
>
> Great Egret
>
> Snowy Egret
>
> Cattle Egret
>
> Black-crowned Night-Heron
>
> White-faced Ibis
>
> Turkey Vulture
>
> Osprey
>
> Northern Harrier
>
> Swainson's Hawk
>
> Red-tailed Hawk
>
> Ferruginous Hawk
>
> American Kestrel
>
> Virginia Rail
>
> American Coot
>
> Sandhill Crane
>
> Black-bellied Plover
>
> Snowy Plover
>
> Killdeer
>
> Black-necked Stilt
>
> American Avocet
>
> Willet
>
> Spotted Sandpiper
>
> Long-billed Curlew
>
> Ruddy Turnstone
>
> Red Knot
>
> Sanderling
>
> Western Sandpiper
>
> Least Sandpiper
>
> Baird's Sandpiper
>
> Dunlin
>
> Long-billed Dowitcher
>
> Wilson's Phalarope
>
> Red-necked Phalarope
>
> Franklin's Gull
>
> Bonaparte's Gull
>
> Ring-billed Gull
>
> California Gull
>
> Caspian Tern
>
> Forster's Tern
>
> Rock Pigeon
>
> Eurasian Collared-Dove
>
> Mourning Dove
>
> Barn Owl
>
> Flammulated Owl
>
> Great Horned Owl
>
> Burrowing Owl
>
> Long-eared Owl
>
> Common Poorwill
>
> Black-chinned Hummingbird
>
> Broad-tailed Hummingbird
>
> Belted Kingfisher
>
> Downy Woodpecker
>
> Northern Flicker
>
> Western Wood-Pewee
>
> Willow Flycatcher
>
> Say's Phoebe
>
> Western Kingbird
>
> Loggerhead Shrike
>
> Warbling Vireo
>
> Black-billed Magpie
>
> American Crow
>
> Common Raven
>
> Horned Lark
>
> Tree Swallow
>
> Violet-green Swallow
>
> Northern Rough-winged Swallow
>
> Bank Swallow
>
> Cliff Swallow
>
> Barn Swallow
>
> Black-capped Chickadee
>
> Mountain Chickadee
>
> Red-breasted Nuthatch
>
> Rock Wren
>
> House Wren
>
> Marsh Wren
>
>
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet
>
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
>
> Hermit Thrush
>
> American Robin
>
> Northern Mockingbird
>
> Sage Thrasher
>
> European Starling
>
> Cedar Waxwing
>
> Virginia's Warbler
>
> Yellow Warbler
>
> Yellow-rumped Warbler
>
> Common Yellowthroat
>
> Wilson's Warbler
>
> Western Tanager
>
> Green-tailed Towhee
>
> Spotted Towhee
>
> Chipping Sparrow
>
> Brewer's Sparrow
>
> Vesper Sparrow
>
> Fox Sparrow
>
> Song Sparrow
>
> White-crowned Sparrow
>
> Dark-eyed Junco
>
> Black-headed Grosbeak
>
> Lazuli Bunting
>
> Red-winged Blackbird
>
> Western Meadowlark
>
> Yellow-headed Blackbird
>
> Brewer's Blackbird
>
> Great-tailed Grackle
>
> Brown-headed Cowbird
>
> Bullock's Oriole
>
> Cassin's Finch
>
> House Finch
>
> Pine Siskin
>
> American Goldfinch
>
> Evening Grosbeak
>
> House Sparrow
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