[Birdtalk] Great Salt Lake Bird Festival Bird Reports

[Steve Coleman]

Bird Lists

Saturday Morning Glover Ponds:
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
White Faced Ibis
Canada Goose
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
American Coot
Sandhill Crane with chick
SNOWY PLOVER 3 ON THE PLAYA WEST OF GLOVER PONDS
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Willet
Long-billed Curlew
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Western Kingbird
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Marsh Wren
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewers Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird

Saturday Morning Wild Wetlands at Farmington Bay Nature Center:
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
White Faced Ibis
Canada Goose
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
American Coot
Sandhill Crane with chick
SNOWY PLOVER 3 ON THE PLAYA WEST OF GLOVER PONDS
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Long-billed Curlew
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Western Kingbird
Barn Swallow
Common Raven
Marsh Wren
American Robin
European Starling
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewers Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird

Saturday afternoon Behind the Gates Turpin Unit Farmington Bay:
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
White Faced Ibis
Canada Goose
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Gadwall
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier
Ring-necked Pheasant
American Coot
Sandhill Crane 
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Wilson's Phalarope
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Western Kingbird
Barn Swallow
Tree Swallow
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Marsh Wren
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
American Robin
European Starling
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewers Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird

Sunday morning while hosting at the FB Nature Center I spotted a Solitary Sandpiper on the playa west of Golver Ponds, the same area where we spotted the Snowy Plovers both Saturday and Monday


Monday Night Birding For Families and Dutch Oven Dinner:

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
White Faced Ibis
Canada Goose
Cinnamon Teal
Gadwall
Redhead
VIRGINIA RAIL
American Coot
SNOWY PLOVER 2 ON THE PLAYA WEST OF GLOVER PONDS
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Willet
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Forster's Tern
Western Kingbird
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Marsh Wren
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewers Blackbird

Steve Coleman
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