[TopOfUtah] Mantua on Monday

[birderbetsy at comcast.net]

I toured Mantua on Monday morning for about an hour.  Drove through Box Elder Campground first and found lots of juncos.  Along the edge of the creek, a single little thrush was hopping along through the brush.  I never got a great look at it, although I know it was NOT a hermit thrush, as the tail was the same color as the back - very gray-brown, no rufous whatsoever.  Swainson's?  Seems pretty late, but it wasn't shivering.

Touring around town, I found BLACK-CAPPED, and MOUNTAIN CHICKADEES, GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE, AMERICAN KESTREL, EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE, AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, PINE SISKIN and tons of house finches and starlings (checked every house finch, hoping for a redpoll - no luck).

On the reservoir, patches of open water hosted AMERICAN COOT, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON & BARROW'S GOLDENEYES, LESSER SCAUP, CANADA GOOSE and a family of 8 muskrats sitting on the edge of the ice munching on vegetation.

Betsy Beneke
Perry, Box Elder County
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