[TopOfUtah] GRAY-CROWNED ROSY-FINCH in Cache Valley

[Craig Fosdick]

Let's try this post again with my name on it!  Craig.

Today (~1230) I had a single GRAY-CROWNED ROSY-FINCH with a flock of 300+
Horned Larks on (literally, on the road) 3000 N west of Benson Bridge /
Marina in Cache Valley.  I watched the bird for ~1 min before it took off,
flew over my truck and landed with another group of Horned Larks on the road
behind the truck.  I was unable to relocate the bird in another 30 minutes
of watching, primarily because the flock of Horned Larks got disturbed one
too many times by traffic.  The last time the larks flushed, only about 20
birds returned; the rest took off to the south and did not return.  Their
was also a single Red-winged Blackbird with the Horned Larks.  I was never
able to search the entire Horned Lark flock for other goodies because it was
spread out over nearly half a mile of road just west of the bridge, and
because it kept getting kicked up by traffic.  Neither the Rosy-Finch nor
the Horned Larks were present later in the day (~330).

Other birds seen today in Cache Valley: 27 Rough-legged Hawks along UT 23
between UT 30 and Cache Jct., and along from UT 218 from Newton to 2600 W.
The Greater Yellowlegs, 4 Wilson's Snipe and Great Egret are still at the
Logan Fish Hatchery.

Craig.
Logan, Utah
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