Re: Trumpeter Swans at Hyrum Reservoir

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Subject: Re: Trumpeter Swans at Hyrum Reservoir

From: Darlene Kilpatrick <darluvbug at yahoo dot com>

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:30:44 -0800 (PST)

Cc: "L. D. Giddings" <lu dot giddings at ed dot utah dot edu>

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Stephen

Thanks for the report for your sighting of 8Y3 and 9Y3. I was flying over northern Utah and southern Idaho to look for my swans that Saturday. 8Y3 and 9Y3 were 2 of my missing birds. They were released on 11/15/2004. To date there have been 32 cygnets released north of Preston, Idaho. We found 24 of the cygnets. Unfortunatley there has been a mortality of one cygnet hitting a powerline. Another one lost its collar and is doing well.

Your sighting and detailed notes are a great help! We did not have time to survey Hyrum.

To add to Lu Gidding's notes--- there are also some trumpeter swans that have white satellite collars. Ruth Shea put these on and would greatly appreciate any sightings for these birds because most of the collars are dieing. She is hoping to recover them if possible. You can send any emails to me adn I will send them to her.

Cheers

Darlene Kilpatrick

cllslp@msn.com wrote:

Bridgerland Audubon Society field trip on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 produced 6 Trumpeter Swans at the SouthEast inlet of the reservoir.

2 of them had yellow neck tags, #s 8Y3 and 9Y3 respectively. And both had underparts of wing painted pink.

These 2 birds kept to themselves, in the shallows. The other 4 bunched together and were about 20 feet away. We got great looks at all birds and we concluded that they all were Trumpeters.

The other 4 birds were not tagged or marked in any way.

We observed them from 9:50 am to 10:15 am, watching the 2 tagged swans fly towards the South, circle back around and over the other 4 swans. The other 4 swans then lifted off and joined the 2 tagged swans, flying North over the reservoir and then circling back to land in the same spot where we previously spotted them. We could hear the swans nasal honking as they flew by. Gray-brown plumage was evident, larger bill with black at the base, with faint pink coloring in middle of bill.

I must have deleted the email of the person from Idaho Fish & Game that was asking for any Trumpeter reports. If anyone has that information, please pass that on to me or go ahead and send that person this sighting.

Other birds of interest at Hyrun Reservoir, which has become quite a hot spot this past month:

Surf Scoter

Pacific Loon

Red Throated Loon

Green-winged Teal

Barn Owl

Double-crested Cormorant

and a 1st year juvenile Northern Shrike.

Complete BAS trip list will be posted at a later time and will also be available on Bridgerlands website: www.bridgerlandaudubon.org

Peace,

Stephen Peterson

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