Fw: [IBLE] Little Gull / Island Park Reservoir

["james.d.mcintyre" <james dot d dot mcintyre at worldnet dot att dot net>]

Here are more precise directions to ISLAND PARK RESERVOIR from Cliff 
Weisse.  Cliff now things the LITTLE GULL is a second summer bird.

Again be very careful about driving on any of the dirt roads immediately 
surrounding the reservoir.  My tow last year cost me about $200!

Jim

P.S. to Cliff:
Please post any updates to BIRDNET (birdnet@utahbirds.org) as well as 
IBLE.  Thanks.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Cliff and Lisa Weisse 
To: IBLE 
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:07 PM
Subject: Little Gull / Island Park Reservoir


I've been very busy lately and really needed a day to rest.  Thanks to 
Brian Carrigan's report of a Hudsonian Godwit I didn't get to rest 
today.  Also thanks to that report I was fortunate to see a first summer 
Little Gull at Island Park Reservoir.  Photos are posted at 
www.octoberweb.com/birds/ligu.  To get to the location take US 20 to 
Island Park and take turn west just north of Pond's Lodge.  The turn is 
marked with a boat ramp sign and is directly across the highway from the 
entrance to Buffalo Campground, a National Forest CG.  When you get to 
the crossroad at the dike go straight and make the next left on a two 
track road through the willows.  When you come to the lake shore you'll 
see an area of open water surrounded by rocky islands and a peninsula to 
your right.  The bird was roosting on the peninsula and foraging over 
the water right in front of you.  It roosted closer to the Forster's 
Terns than to the Ring-billed Gulls and wasn't closely associating with 
either.  I'm going to look for the bird again in the morning and will 
post an update.

Other birds on the reservoir included one Pectoral Sandpiper, a few 
Western, Baird's and Least Sandpipers, Avocets, both Yellowlegs, 
Killdeer and three Semipalmated Plovers.  There were still lots of 
Franklin's Gulls and ducks on the west end but I didn't bird it 
thoroughly.  I also saw a Common Loon and a Horned Grebe.

Cliff

Cliff and Lisa Weisse
Island Park, ID
october@ida.net


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