Saturday Morning for the Birds

Saturday Morning Was For the Birds!
(with photos)

3 Nov 2007
Utah County, Utah

Field Trip Report by Leena Rogers

What a pleasure it was to spend a gorgeous fall Saturday morning (11/3) with your two best birding buddies! Milt Moody, Tuula Rose and I set off on a VERY chilly morning for a couple of hours to see what birds might be lurking in the area. Heavy coats and gloves sure came in handy on Saturday morning. It was nippy! The places covered were Provo City Cemetery (very quiet early still at 8:45 am). Evergreen Cemetery, Springville (also rather quiet), the Lewis's Woodpecker hill near Elk Ridge (beautiful and quiet), and then Salem to the pond by the housing are on the west of town and then Salem Pond itself (very productive around 10 a.m. even though not a lot of water fowl could be seen). On the way home we meandered through the fields and meadows and soaked in that perfect Fall morning. Quick stop at East Bay ponds. Lovely and quiet. No Herons! Ended our birding at Tuula's house to see the bird activity in her yard and on her feeders. 33 species seen. Best bird of the day: RED CROSSBILL (males and females) at Salem Pond.

~~ Happy Fall Birding everyone!!!!

BIRDS SEEN:

Black-billed Magpie
House Finch
Townsend's Solitaire
(Evergreen Cemetery)
European Starling
European Collared Dove
(Evergreen Cemetery)
Great Blue Heron
Lewis' Woodpecker
   (where we always locate
    them on the ridge of the
    hill between Elkridge
    and Salem)
Steller's Jay
American Kestrel
Mallard
American Widgeon

Ring-necked Duck
(ponds by housing area
    west Salem)
Northern Shoveler
American Coot
Pied-billed Grebe
Red Crossbill
(abt 10:00 a.m., both males
    and females in an arborvita
    west of Salem main pond;
    seen from near the
    footbridge on northwest
    end of pond)
Mountain Chickadee
Cedar Waxwings
Dark-eyed Junco
Brewer's Blackbird
Spotted Towhee

Cassin's Fich
   (Salem Pond)
White-crowned Sparrow
   (juveniles)
House Sparrow
Red-tailed Hawk
Canada Goose
Sandhill Crane
   (a whole flock of them with
    GBHs out in fields west of
    Spanish Fork)
American Crow
Great-tailed Grackle
   (Walmart, Springville)
Rock Pigeon
American Robin
Northern Flicker
American Goldfinch

Leena Rogers

Salem Pond Looking West
Photo by Leena Rogers ©Leena Rogers