FW: brant-Bear River Migratory Refuge

["Eric Huish" <poorwill_ at hotmail dot com>]

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It was submitted by Karen Welch.
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Subject: brant-Bear River Migratory Refuge

Email_Address: vonwelch@sisna.com

Message: The sighting was at the Bear River Migratory Refuge near Brigham 
City NOT the Bear Lake refuge as reported.
Please forgive the mistake from a first time poster to the hotline.  Karen 
was so excited about the sighting that she didn't proof read the email that 
I sent.
Here is a little more detail:
If you travel to the refuge on the dirt road, you eventually come to a one 
lane cement bridge that is the start of the counter-clockwise loop. If you 
travel around the loop, I found the brant near the very end, 1 turn before 
returning to the building and bridge where you start the loop. I believe 
that was at the south end of the refuge. When my son and I first saw it, it 
was fairly close to the road--maybe 100 feet, mixed in with a scattering of 
coots. It had white on the flank which is what made it stick out. A closer 
look showed the unmistakable look of a brant--white necklace, long neck, 
short bill. I have seen flocks of them in San Diego. The bird slowly swam 
away as I was taking pictures and eventually got out of range. The pictures 
show the distinctive sillouette of a brant but not much detail. I didn't 
notice the details on the coloring, except to say that it seemed that the 
neck and belly were almost uniformly dark. We observed it for about half an 
hour.

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