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We were fogged out of our trip to Antelope Island
Saturday morning, but with 4 Balds and 1 Shrike we considered ourselves on
base and running all day. Wasatch and Utah county teamed up to give us a
final score of 45 species. Most were regular birds, a number were
waterfowl, and a couple were we've-gotta-haves. Having a BYU student
who needed 200 species before the semester's end made it even more fun.
Our list follows with our 4 favorites high-lighted.
Great Blue
Heron's
Canada Goose
Green-winged
Teal Northern
Pintail
Mallard Northern
Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Ring-necked
Duck Lesser
Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Wood Duck in its usual spot
in Reed's neighborhood
Barrow's Goldeneye on
the upper pond at Wasatch State Park
Bald
Eagle
Golden Eagle
Red-tailed
Hawk
American Kestrel
California Quail
Rock Dove
Lewis's
Woodpecker Steller's
Jay
Western
Scrub-Jay
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Northern Shrike in a
tree at Swede's lane
Black-capped
Chickadee Mountain
Chickadee
Red-breasted
Nuthatch White-breasted
Nuthatch
American Dipper
Ruby-crowned
Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
parking lot at Aspen Family Camp
European
Starling Spotted
Tohee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed
Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
House
Finch Pine
Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
American
Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Now if we haven't had enough already, I hit spell
check and found out I had mispelled the Steller's Jay.
Webster suggests I spell it Stealers Jay. Maybe we could vote on
the spellings. This one sounds apropos to me.
Carol Nelson
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