[Birdtalk] Great Salt Lake Bird Festival Bird Reports

[Steve Coleman]

You don't need special access to get to this area. If you go during the Nature Center hours Mon. thru Thurs. 8:00 to 5:00 you can drive to the Nature Center parking lot to park. Watch where you step there are nesting Killdeer all over the parking lot. There is a gate right next to the Nature Center buildings, this gate is always locked but is accessible for walking, go around that gate and walk the trail west, it will bend to the North after about 300 yards and you will be on the southwest end of the Glover Ponds. Start watching the Playas to the west, walk another 200 or 300 hundred yards keeping an eye on those playas. This is where we saw the Snowy Plover and Solitary Sandpiper this weekend. This area is very active right now. Watch the grassy areas west of the Playas for the Sandhill Cranes with a chick.

There is also a very vocal and cooperative Virginia Rail in the Cattails at the gate next to the Nature Center as well.

If you go after hours you can park in the parking area at the gate to the Nature Center and walk in.

Good birding 
Steve

>>> "Kristin Purdy" <kristinpurdy at comcast.net> 5/19/2009 7:19 AM >>>

Steve,

Can you see the playa west of Glover Ponds if you have no special access to 
the area? For instance, from Egg Island?

Kris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Coleman" <scoleman at utah.gov>
To: <birdtalk at utahbirds.org>
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 11:04 PM
Subject: [Birdtalk] Great Salt Lake Bird Festival Bird Reports


> 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
>
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