[TopOfUtah] Dry Lake and Mantua Lake

[Connie McManus]

Yesterday (Friday 4/25) I birded Dry Lake (again) and Mantua Lake.  For
those of you who aren't familiar with Dry Lake, it is an intermittent lake
that is divided by US 89.  There is a west side and an east side.  Coming
from Logan, I birded the west side of the of Dry Lake on my way to Mantua
Lake, after birding Mantua Lake, coming home I birded the east side of Dry
Lake.  Knowing this will  help make sense of my report below.

DRY LAKE, WEST SIDE
Sandhill Crane     2
American Coot    15
Double Crested Cormorant 1
Clark's Grebe    2
Yellow-headed Black Bird 32
Turkey Vulture   1
white faced ibis     200


MANTUA LAKE, SOUTH EAST SIDE
Vesper sparrow     3
Sage sparrow     1
Chipping Sparrow  14
White-crowned sparrow   4
Bank Swallow     51
Barn Swallow      2 (mixed with the bank swallows)
American Robin   36
Downy Woodpecker    1
Northern Shoveler      1
Orange-crowned warbler     2
Yellow-Rumped warbler   1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet      1
Black-throated Gray warbler    1
Yellow warbler   3
Dark-eyed Junco   33
Red-tailed hawk  1
Turkey vulture   1
Northern Harrier     1
Red-winged blackbird     2 (heard about 10 others that I did not see)
Black-billed Magpies     4
Ruddy duck      1000 (males and females)
Western Grebe      150 (there were more, too far away to distinguish between
clark's and western)
Clark's Grebe     50 (same note as for Westerns)
Canvas back      >1000
Lesser ? Scaup     200
Killdeer     5
Cinnamon teal      8 male and female
Eared Grebe      11
Goldeneye        17
Blue-winged Teal      12
Dbl crested Cormorant       4
Mallard       8
Gadwall     2


DRY LAKE, EAST SIDE
Green-winged Teal     8
Cinnamon Teal      15
Brewer's Black Bird    6
White faced Ibis   1100
Eared Grebe   3
Mallards    26
American Avocet    1
Redhead     8
Killdeer     4
Greater Yellow Legs     1


species:   37

On the east side of Dry Lake is a small island of tall grasses where i saw
the sandhills.  I expect there will be other birds, such as Herons and other
wading birds at some time soon.  I'm disappointed I didn't see any there
yesterday.

This morning in College Ward on 2200 South I saw a Ruby Crowned Kinglet and
a Yellow-rumped Warbler (1 of each).



-- 
Connie McManus
Nibley, Cache County, Utah
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