The west desert

["ld tripp" <ltripp29 at hotmail dot com>]

I got back late last night from birding the west desert area of Utah from 
Beaver Co. to Juab Co. There were several good birds out there which Dana 
already reported the birds that were seen on Saturday. The best bird was the 
male Black-throated Blue Warbler that I saw on Sat. afternoon in a dense 
thicket of Russian Olive trees with a spring fed pond and a small steam 
running through them. I'm not sure what the area is called but it is about 
30 miles S. of Callao,7 miles E. of Gandy. We tried to relocate it Sat. 
night and I tried again on Sunday but couldn't find it.
The best bird I saw on Sunday was a singing male Tennessee Warbler in the 
town of Callao.It was at the west end of town, I heard it singing from my 
truck as I entered the town. When I located the bird it was singing from a 
small mostly dead tree behind a deserted house on the north side of the 
road.I last saw it fly into some tall Elms at the next house to the E.
I didn't see anything unusual at Fish Springs just the birds you would 
expect this time of year. I stopped at a few other small springs on the way 
S. but didn't see anything rare. The only other thing of note was a male 
Purple Martin in the fields south of Milford.

Larry Tripp

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