No Brant in CV as of yet

["Stephen Peterson" <cllslp at msn dot com>]

I drove around the valley this past Saturday to all open water that I know about and could not find the Brant.

I checked both ponds at the golf course, at least 4 times, throughout the day, and did not see the brant. There were many Canada geese on both ponds but no brant.

Interestingly enough, a bald eagle was eating, what looked like a large goose on the side of the golf course pond. More than likely a Canada, but would it not be kind of comical, in a tragic sort of way, if it was the brant it was eating?

And now we have the Boreal owl to go look for! As well as a Lapland Longspur. Could we possibly get a Snowy in Cache Valley? Rexburg is not too far away. (Yes, I 'm dreaming)

Sure would be nice to have the time to be out looking all week long!
Alas, I must keep my nose to the grindstone here at work and school.

Good luck to you all looking for these birds. Keep me posted! You could give me a call if you see any of the aforementioned birds.
(435) 755-4152 (work)
(435) 755-5041 (home)

Stephen Peterson





From: "Tim Avery" <tanager@timaverybirding.com>
To: 
<cllslp@msn.com>

Subject: 
Brant

Date: 
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:09:01 -0700







Stephen,

 

Thanks for checking out the ponds.  I am the interested party that Kris was talking about, I snapped her a quick message this morning to see if we could validate the sighting.  Its hard to drive 180 mileround trip on the chance of a bird.  In any event I will be heading up in the morning, checking the course, as well as 20-20 ponds and maybe a few other spots.  In any event, thanks again, and hopefully we can make this thing appear so a lot of people can get the lifer.  On another note I guess another person saw it earlier in the week west of town, so my guess is it will stick for a while like the last one, or the one in Colorado right now.

 

Good Birding

 

Tim

http://www.timaverybirding.com

http://www.birdingwyoming.org

Salt Lake City, Utah


 

"I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine."
- John James Audubon








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