Tooele County & Alta

[cldavis at xmission dot com]

It was a great day for birding on Sunday.  We saw a great horned owl near 
Fairfield, some beautiful golden eagles, lots of waterfowl on the James 
Walter Fitzgerald WMA pond, and two northern shrike just across the road 
from the pond.  I had four life birds, including the rosy-finches we saw at 
Alta earlier that day.  Nicky had ten life birds.  
On the way home we came up over a hill and just above the road two red-
tails were being chased by two peregrine falcons.  What a sight!
We also saw a different-looking large hawk in Vernon.  It had the brightest 
orange-red feathers over all I have never seen on a red-tail (if it is a re-
tail), but I think it could be a rufous morph.  If anyone would like to 
give me their opinion, the two photos can been seen here:  
http://www.xmission.com/~cldavis/whathawk.html
The lighting wasn't the greatest so it doesn't really show the brightness 
of the coloring.  
We had around 40 species for the day. 
Carol and Nicky Davis 

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