[TopOfUtah] White-throated Sparrow, Logan

[Craig Fosdick]

Sorry if this posts twice, my first email did not go through.

Today I checked two city parks in Logan, Rendevous Park/Logan River Trail
and Lundstrom Park, for goodies to add to my year list.  Thanks to Connie's
post from yesterday (thank you Connie) I was able to add Wood Duck to my
year list.  There was also a free-flying Mandarin Duck, hanging out with a
female Wood Duck.  No, the Mandarin Duck did not make my year list.  I
assume it is an escape from the Willow Park Zoo (no idea if they have them?)
or a private individual.

Other birds of interest at Rendesvous Park (there weren't that many) were a
possible Winter Wren (70-80% sure I heard the chimp-chimp alarm call, but I
was standing right next to the Logan River, which is quite loud; I never
could find the wren), 2 Brown Creepers, and a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW
(between the intersection of the paved trail from the parking lot and its
connection with the paved trail along the river, SOUTH of the railroad
tracks; the bird was in the bushes near one of the benches on the wood
overlook platforms.  Is that confusing enough?).  No idea if this is a
different White-throated Sparrow than the individual I had been seeing on S
100 E and E 400 S in Logan from Dec 30, 2007 to January 5, 2008.  It's only
about a mile between the two locations.

Lundstrom Park canal trail was uneventful, but birdy.  Dark-eyed Juncos,
Black-capped Chickadees, House Finches, and singing American Robins and
Spotted Towhees.  A migrating Sharp-shinned Hawk (several hundreds of feet
high) was seen riding a thermal up for a journey, perhaps to the north.

Good birding, Craig.

Craig Fosdick
Logan, Utah.
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