Utah County Birders
 Field Trip Report
 


20 January 2020

Twenty on the Twentieth  Field Trip
 
 Lee Kay Ponds, Decker Lake & Jordan River Trailhead Park

Photos and text by Leena Rogers  
      Information and Fieldtrip Leaders: Keeli Marvel & Sam Phillips

 
In spite of the freezing cold January weather, our Gulling Field Trip was a great success thanks to Keeli Marvel and Sam Phillips. We birded Lee Kay Ponds, Decker Lake, and Redwood Trailhead Park to locate our 20 birds on the 20th. Fun morning!


Birders appropriately equipped


Birders appropriately bundled up


East end of main Lee Kay Pond


Glaucous Gull kind of stands out.

List of the highlights we saw from Keeli Shea Marvel:

Highlights at Lee Kay included 6 gull species: Ring-billed, California, Herring, Iceland, Glaucous, Lesser black-backed, a Rough-legged Hawk,
and...

 

... Canvasback ducks, Green-winged Teal and Common Mergansers at Decker Lake, and several Barrow’s Goldeneye at the Jordan River Trailhead park bridge on the Jordan River


Barrow's Goldeneye


Trailhead Park Bridge

  Photos by Leena Rogers

E-mail: ucbirders@utahbirds.org