[TopOfUtah] Logan-more Blue Grosbeaks, southbound peeps

[Craig Fosdick]

This morning (7/12) I birded the Logan Mitigation Ponds, looking for
southbound shorebirds.  I found >17 peeps, including at least 6 WESTERN
SANDPIPERS, >2 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, and a LEAST SANDPIPER.  I am fairly
certain that the remaining 8 peeps were also Westerns, but they did not do a
very good job of sitting still.  Also at the Mitigation Ponds were 24
AMERICAN AVOCETS, a WILLET, two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS and a REDHEAD female with
6 kids, and two BLUE GROSBEAKS.  Plus the other usual suspects.  Of the five
ponds at the Logan Mitigation Ponds, only the three south of the access road
have water.  The pond north of the access road which was hopping with
shorebirds this past spring is completely dry, as is the "Shorebird Playa".
Most of the peeps and the other shorebirds were in the first pond south of
the access road.

The two BLUE GROSBEAKS were countersinging from either side of 1900
West.  An adult male perched on a roadsign on the east side of the road was
presumably the same male that Ryan O' Donnell had just south of the Logan
Landfill on July 4.  A first-year male on the west side of the road
was perched on the Logan Mitigation Ponds fence. This bird had a very dull
plumage; mostly brownish, with some blue on the head; it still had the
rufous-chestnut wingbars typical of adult males.

Good birding, Craig.

Craig Fosdick
Logan, Utah.
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