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Greetings!
Julie VanMoorhem and I went to the Bountiful Landfill today
and were denied access by the employee at the gate. He said they had not
been allowing birders in for about two months now. When we told him that
some others had gotten in recently, he said that was because he had been off for
three weeks. Anyway, he said the new policy was due to problems with cars
getting in the way of the heavy equipment and also all the flat tires that were
occurring. This guy's news was a hard pill to swallow. We went on to
Farmington Bay. There were large numbers of gulls - mostly California with
a few Herring mixed in and a couple of Northern Harriers. Didn't see
anything else that hasn't been reported recently.
Before linking up with Julie, I birded the Salt Lake City
Cemetery. I was in the general area of 980 East and 445 North. The
birds were very active around 1:00 and I saw 15 species in about 30
minutes. There were a few Townsend's
Solitaires and lots of Red-breasted
Nuthatches. There were many Flickers and
Downy Woodpeckers and one Red-naped
Sapsucker. Bob Bradley was out birding on his lunch hour and told
me he saw a White-breasted Nuthatch.
Pomera
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