Broad-winged Hawk in SL County

["Tim Avery" <tanager at timaverybirding dot com>]

I posted this to birdnet this morning, but it didn't go through:


This morning I headed out to Saltair to see if there were any signs of 
bird life... A big fat negative...  In fact there were no birds there, 
no gulls, no ducks, no grebes, no sparrows, pigeons or starlings, 
nothing.  However, on the way out along SR-201 just past the 5600 West 
exit to Lee Kay Ponds was a light juvenile BROAD-WINGED HAWK.  This 
seems like a rather late migrant, okay a VERY LATE MIGRANT, but several 
have been seen over the last 2 weeks still coming through Wyoming so...  
The bird was perched right along the highway on top of a large silver 
box, literally just past the on-ramp to SR-201 westbound from 5600 West. 
 A silver lining to a birdless day...  I watched the bird for about 5 
minutes, before continuing on my way.

When I got home, a MERLIN was perched on the telephone pole in my back 
yard, a new yard bird/year bird!

Good Birding

Tim
http://www.timaverybirding.com
http://www.birdingwyoming.org
Salt Lake City, Utah
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