Birding in Battle Creek Canyon.

["Eric Huish" <poorwill_ at hotmail dot com>]

Hi all,

I went on a walk in Battle Creek Canyon (Pleasant Grove) this morning and 
got into a nice pocket of birds.  (Nothing to exciting but I thought I?d 
post anyways.)  Mountain and Black-capped Chickadees, MacGillivray's, 
Wilson's, Virginia's, and Orange-crowned Warblers, Spotted and Green-tailed 
Towhees, Canyon Wrens, a Plumbeous Vireo and tons of Ruby-crowned Kinglets 
were all in a little flock of birds a little ways up the road/trail.  Other 
birds of interest included a Golden Eagle, Cooper's Hawk, Flickers, Downies, 
and a Red-naped Sapsucker.  I heard Chuckers and was able to coax a Western 
Screech-Owl into peeking out its tree hole so I could see it.

On a side note I had a beautiful pale Red Fox trot up the hill just across 
the stream from me.  It paused to look back at me before it disappeared 
behind some rocks. I had a real close look at it (about 15 yards) and I 
swear it had pale blue eyes.  I thought this was kind of weird so I've tried 
to find info on foxes with blue eyes.  Everything I've read says that foxes 
can have blue eyes as kits but have the yellow-brown eyes as adults.  This 
fox was an adult. Is it possible it had blue eyes or was I just seeing 
things?


Eric Huish
Pleasant Grove UT
poorwill_@hotmail.com
801-360-8777

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