Re: YourMemorable Bird Sightings of 2002

[Pat Bean <patbean at msn dot com>]

        Burrowing owls on Antelope Island, a purple sandpiper in Texas,
mountain bluebirds near the top of Monte Cristo,  a pair of roseate
spoonbills in Texas. It was just before sundown and the pink from their
feathers reflected  brightly in the water. And an osprey catching a fish in
the Snake River  near Jackson Wyu, Plust lots more. Happy New Year everyone.
P.S. I wrote about the sandpiper and osprey in my Standard-Examiner column
that comes out in the Xplore section every Wednesday.  Pat Bean

>From: "Carol A. Gwynn" <cgwynn@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: "Carol A. Gwynn" <cgwynn@earthlink.net>
>To: birdnet@utahbirds.org
>Subject: [birdnet] YourMemorable Bird Sightings of 2002 Date: Tue, 24 Dec
>2002 11:43:09 -0700
>
>Hi, and Merry Christmas Everyone!
>
>Our good birding friends over in Colorado are doing something fun on their
>birdline this week.  People are posting 5 memorable bird sightings from
>2002.  It has been fun to read their posts.  So - let's do a few from Utah
>birders.  Here are five of mine, even though it was hard to pick.  These
>aren't in any particular order.
>
>1.  Black Rosy Finch - I finally got this lifer at Susan Thomas' feeders in
>Alta.  What a beauty of a bird!  This bird almost brings tears to your
>eyes.
>. .
>
>2.  Breeding colonies of Horned Puffins and Tufted Puffins in Alaska.
>These
>birds are just way too cool.  On one occasion outside of Homer, AK, tufted
>puffins were floating all around our boat.
>
>3.  A whole family of Rock Ptarmigans on the tundra in Alaska.  Maybe these
>made an impression because of the steep hike it took to get to where they
>were!
>
>4.  Back to Utah - the collection of birds on East Canyon Reservoir last
>month.  The Pacific Loon, Mergansers, etc.  What a fun day that was.
>
>5.  The Common Redpoll invasion at Mantua, in January.  It was great to get
>this life bird in Utah, and to associate with the carloads of birders who
>were all looking for it.
>
>6.  I just couldn't stop at 5 - how about limpkins, magnificant
>frigatebird,
>breeding plumage Lapland longspur, Arctic warbler, red-faced cormorant,
>spot-breasted oriole, the 9 GBH's flying over Geneva last Saturday, the
>very
>cocky-looking belted kingfishers at First Dam in Logan, . . . and on and on
>and on.  Aren't we lucky to be able to enjoy such a fun hobby?
>
>Carol Gwynn
>
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