[Birdtalk] GSL Birding Festival - Sat Antelope Island/Garr RanchFocus - an addition

[STEPHEN T CARLILE]

Forgot the California Quail, making a total of 63 species.

Stephen
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  From: STEPHEN T CARLILE<mailto:carlilest at msn.com> 
  To: birdtalk<mailto:birdtalk at utahbirds.org> 
  Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:06 PM
  Subject: [Birdtalk] GSL Birding Festival - Sat Antelope Island/Garr RanchFocus


  I volunteered to report on this morning's GSL Birding Festival trip to Antelope Island/Garr Ranch, led by Steven and Cindy Sommerfeld.  The highlights were NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, BOBOLINK and LONG-EARED OWL.  Some of these were lifers for several on the trip.  A brief narrative and the list follow.

  The causeway had very little to offer today.  Virtually none of the birds reported by Mark earlier this week were there.  The usuals of Wilson's Phalarope, American Avocet, Killdeer, Willet, and California Gulls with two Franklin's Gulls was about it; though there were a lot of small shorebirds off in the diatance.  On the way back we gave up competing with about 200 to 300 bicyclists for the causeway, elminating any real birding.

  On the way to Garr Ranch Grasshopper Sparrows were seen and heard.  Garr Ranch offered more, though the migrant mix was less than expected.  A Northern Waterthrush and an unexpected male Bobolink were found aroung the ponds/seeps south of the ranch.  The Great Horned Owls were there, their owlets staring meancingly at us.  South of the ranch on the road normally closed to the public we were able to see a Long-eared Owl on its nest.  At the end of the trip we saw the Barn Owl and owlets in the hay barn at the bison corals.  Though we looked in several places, no Burrowing Owl.  Oh, by the way the bugs have't gone away.

  A total of 62 species were seen.  Here is the full list.  I hope I got everything. 

  Thanks,

  Stephen

  Canada Goose
  Mallard
  Cinnamon Teal
  Lesser Scaup
  Chukar
  Ring-necked Pheasant
  Eared Grebe
  American White Pelican
  Double-created Cormorant
  Great Blue Heron
  White-faced Ibis
  Northern Harrier
  Peregrine Falcon
  American Kestrel
  Virginia Rail (audible)
  Killdeer
  Willet
  Wilson's Phalarope
  Franklin's Gull
  California Gull
  Mourning Dove
  Barn Owl
  Great Horned Owl
  Long-eared Owl
  Black-chinned Hummingbird
  Western Kingbird
  Black-billed Magpie
  Common Raven
  Horned Lark
  Tree Swallow
  Violet-green Swallow
  Cliff Swallow
  Barn Swallow
  Rock Wren
  Hermit Thrush
  American Robin
  Sage Thrasher
  European Starling
  Cedar Waxwing
  Orange-crowned Warbler
  Yellow Warbler
  Yellow-rumped Warbler
  Common Yellowthroat (audible)
  Chipping Saprrow
  Brewer's Sparrow
  Vesper Sparrow
  Lark Sparrow
  Grasshopper Sparrow
  Song Sparrow
  White-crowned Sparrow
  Black-headed Grosebeak
  Lazuli Bunting
  Bobolink
  Red-winged Blackbird
  Yellow-headed Blackbird
  Western Meadowlark
  Brown-headed Cowbird
  Bullock's Oriole
  House Finch
  Pine Siskin
  American Goldfinch
  House Sparrow
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