Directions: Take the 7200 South exit (Exit 297) on I-15 in Salt
Lake City and go east about 5 miles on UT 48 to the mouth of Big Cottonwood
Canyon. As the road crosses Wasatch Blvd. it joins SR190 and continues up Big
Cottonwood Canyo
Birds at "The Spruces"
Specialty Birds:
~ Steve Carr
Main birding areas are around Silver Lake. Puddle ducks, Spotted
Sandpipers, Violet-green Swallows, Lincoln’s and Song Sparrows, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Hairy Woodpecker, high-country
warblers, including a Tennessee Warbler once, kinglets, Red Crossbills, a
White-winged Crossbill was seen close to the information center at Silver Lake.
Solitaires, Hermit Thrushes, Snowshoe Rabbits and Moose.
The trail toward Lake
Solitude – Wood Pewee, occasionally other Empidonax, Williamson’s Sapsucker,
Clark’s Nutcracker, Downy Woodpecker. At Lake Solitude there is usually a
nesting Williamson’s Sapsucker.
At Redman campground, just down canyon
from Brighton, a 3-toed Woodpecker nested in 2006.
Guardsman’s Pass, above Brighton – Northern Goshawks, kinglets, juncos,
Chipping Sparrows, Spotted Towhee, MacGillivray’s Warbler, Hermit Thrushes.
Broad-winged Hawks have been seen in Sept-Oct.
eBird Data: |
Silver Lake |
Silver Lake to Lake Solitude
Hike | Brighton to Twin
Lakes Hike | Brighton Loop
Rd. |
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