North Arm (Weber County)

[cldavis at xmission dot com]

We visited North Arm and surrounding area on Sunday and it was a jungle out
there.  We saw chats, catbirds, common yellowthroats, yellow warblers, fox
sparrows, western kingbirds, hummingbirds, mountain chickadees, downy
woodpeckers, black-headed grosbeaks, flickers, osprey, TVs, red-tailed
hawks, kestrels, cedar waxwing, lazuli buntings, ruby-crowned kinglets, a
Swainson's hawk, western tanagers, Bullock's orioles; common mergansers,
white pelican and western grebes (on the reservoir); Brewer's sparrows (at
the monastery); sandhill cranes, a long-billed curlew and a nighthawk (in
the surrounding fields); and a pair of marmots crossing the road near
Middle Fork.  Also, the Lewis's Woodpeckers are back at Middle Fork.

Up Powder Mountain canyon we found dippers, yellow-rumped warblers,
Steller's jays, Cassin's finches, goldfinches, mountain bluebirds,
olive-sided flycatchers, green-tailed towhees, Townsend's solitaires,
hermit thrush, and many deer.  Also, at the top we got to drive next to a
very skinny, poofy-tailed fox as it carried a rodent lunch up the hill to
where the road ended and to where presumably the babies were waiting.  It
never faltered or looked worried as we stopped periodically to take
pictures.

It's a great time to go to visit the area up there--all the birds are
singing. 

Carol

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