[ucbnet] New Year's Day Birds

[M L Rogers]

The bright sunshine made it seem much warmer than the chill 8° as Milt Moody, Tuula Rose, Eric Huish and I set out for our annual bird chase on New Year's Day morning. We headed for South Utah County. It remained cold, and even at midday the temperature registered just 19 chilly degrees! Obviously that did not discourage the birds, because we had a very successful trip, and counted 57 species total for the half day. The best birds of the day were the Red-Breasted Mergaser at Salem Pond and a Prairie Falcon perched on a pole in one of the fields we passed near Spanish Fork. It was also a great "raptor" day ~ we ended with 8 species on our list. In addition we also spotted Great-tailed Grackles at the WalMart in Springville, and found half dozen Black-crowned Night Herons on Heron Island at the East Bay Business Park in Provo. Taking the birds straight off my list:

Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Shoveler
Pied-billed Grebe
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER
American Wigeon
American Coot
Common Goldeneye
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Canada Goose
Lesser Scaup
Northern Flicker
Ricng-necked Duck
Gadwall
Northern Pintail
Bufflehead
Great Blue Heron
Western Meadowlark
Dark-eyed Junco
House Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Canvasback
Redhead
American Robin
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Northern Harrier
American Kestrel
Mountain Bluebird
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
PRAIRIE FALCON
Common Raven
House Finch
Horned Lark
FERRUGENOUS HAWK
European Starling
Bald Eagle
Kildeer
Ring-billed Gull
MERLIN
Townsend's Solitaire
Steller's Jay
Brewer's Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
LEWIS'S WOODPECKER
Mourning Dove
Scrub Jay
Rock Pigeon
Mountain Chickadee
American Goldfinch
GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-capped Chickadee

A great way to start out the New Year! Good birding everyone ..........


Leena  Rogers
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