[TopOfUtah] Logan: Chipping Sparrow, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, 4/27/09

[Craig Fosdick]

Birded Logan Canal Trail this evening.  Quiet early on (tough to hear above
the lawnmowers), then a couple of first-of-season birds for me: a CHIPPING
SPARROW, then a fly-by BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD.  Later, I had a flyover
CASPIAN TERN (also a first-of-season) apparently returning to Logan after
finishing its fishing duties at First Dam.  A small armada of WHITE-THROATED
SWIFTS were patrolling the skies above my apartment, and they were kind
enough to bring along both TREE and VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW, both new for my
yard list.  Strangely enough, not a single Yellow-rumped Warbler this
evening.  Finally, a pair of BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES (not rare, of course)
were excavating a nest cavity along the Canal Trail.

Checklist below.  Good birding, Craig.

Craig Fosdick
Logan, Utah.

Number of species:     27

Mallard     5
Ring-necked Pheasant     2
Turkey Vulture     8
Sharp-shinned Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk     1
California Gull     1
Caspian Tern     1
Rock Pigeon     13
Mourning Dove     4
White-throated Swift     12
Broad-tailed Hummingbird     1
Northern Flicker     1
Black-billed Magpie     15
American Crow     2
Tree Swallow     2
Violet-green Swallow     6
Barn Swallow     2
swallow sp.     20
Black-capped Chickadee     11
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     6
American Robin     34
European Starling     28
Chipping Sparrow     1
Song Sparrow     3
blackbird sp.     1
House Finch     10
Pine Siskin     3

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