Painted Redstart

[Richard Wood <rwoodphd at msn dot com>]

Hi all,
Jill and Kirsten and I just returned form a weekend of 
birding/hiking/sight seeing at Zion National Park.  We arrived there on 
Sunday and just got home about 30 minutes or so ago.  I haven't 
completed a complete species list, but I just want to report some of the 
highlights that we had.

We had a Painted Redstart on the Riverwalk Trail on Sunday.  We talked 
to Melvin in the visitior center and he told us that it had been sighted 
there the last three years (actually, 2001, 2002 and 2003, according to 
utahbirds.org).

We also had a Lucy's Warbler in the parking lot this morning just west 
of the shuttle entrance along the Virgin River.  I heard him singing and 
was able to locate him in one of the trees there.

We went back looking for the Redstart this afternoon and we didn't find 
him.  We did have a Black Swift, however, along the canyon wall near the 
area where the shuttle bus stops at the Temple of Sinawava stop.

The Painted Redstart, Lucy's Warbler and Black Swift put my Utah life 
list over 200 species. something that made me very happy.

More later...

Good birding,
Richard

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