[TopOfUtah] White-throated Sparrow, Logan

[Connie McManus]

I'm glad you got to see the wood ducks. How many did you see?  When I was
there, there wer 2 males, 2 females and they seemed to be having some
territory issues.   How common are wood ducks for our area?  I feel really
lucky that I got to see them.

Happy Bird day
Connie McManus -- Cache Valley

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Craig Fosdick <craig.fosdick at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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