More St. George Birding

["Brian Currie" <bcurrie33 at hotmail dot com>]

I apologize for the late report.  E-mail was down on Monday, no time 
yesterday.  This report was from June 21 at Tonaquint Nature Park.

Another splendid place to bird.  If it wasn't for the hot weather, I may 
want to move down to St. George.  I only had 45 minutes to bird (family did 
not want to stop at all).  When I first arrived, about 9:30 AM, at the 
beginning of the walkway going to the Visitor's center, at the sign 
indicating it is a nature park, about 75 yards to the right (north?) as you 
look at the sign  in some dead trees, about 3/4 the way up the tree was a 
first year Green Heron.  The lighting was coming from the wrong direction, 
and as I attempted to reposition myself for photos, it flew away, not to be 
seen again.  It looked to be a first summer bird.  Nice surprise.  At the 
pond/visitor's center there was an abundance of Black Phoebes.  Great to see 
them again.  Taking the trail (dirt) which looped back towards the parking 
lot I saw two male Blue Grosbeaks and one female.  One female Gamble's Quail 
was fairly accommodating to stay still whilst I traced from where she was 
making her quail sounds.  Great-tailed Grackles were there, as were 
Black-chinned Hummingbirds (saw two males).  Thanks again to Leena for the 
directions.

Brian

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