Oct 2007
Ned Bixler (19 Oct 2007) - 4:00 PM. The Neotropic Cormorant was still at Quichipa Reservoir near Cedar City. There were also numerous ducks on the reservoir.
Joel and Kathy (19 Oct 2007) - We saw a juvenile Sabine's Gull on Quichapa Reservoir on Wednesday October 17. Also, the Neotropic Cormorant is still there.
Rick Fridell - ...in case anyone is still wondering, I observed the continuing Neotropic Cormorant at Quichapa Lake (Iron Co.) on Tuesday afternoon (10/09).
Sep 2007
Rick Fridell (19 Sep 2007) - I just received a call from Steve Summers and he located the continuing Neotropic Cormorant at Quichapa Lake (Iron Co.). The cormorant was along the southeast shore in the company of many Double-crested Cormorants. After living in Cedar City for many years, Steve is back working there this week, and I believe the Neotropic Cormorant was Steve's 260th Iron Co. bird!
Rick Fridell (14 Sep 2007) - This afternoon at approximately 6:00 pm, Larry Tripp, Peyton Cook, and I saw the Neotropic Cormorant at Quichapa Lake (Iron Co.). It was perched in a dead tamarisk on the southeast shore with many Double-crested Cormorants.
Kristin Purdy (5 Sep 2007) - Tim Avery and Glenn Barlow traveled to Quichapa Lake west of Cedar City in Iron County yesterday and saw the Neotropic Cormorant along with 5-6 Double-crested Cormorants sitting on the fenceline where other observers have seen the bird.
Jack Binch (2 Sep 2007) - chasing the Neotropic Cormorant ...The group I was with on Friday was unsuccessful. I birded with Lu and Dennis on Saturday evening and they spotted the bird five minutes after I left. I went over to talk to Ed, and he had seen the bird fifteen minutes before I got there. I went back Sunday morning with the resolve to stay all day if necessary.... Thanks to the Beyers, David Wheeler and Larene Wyss. I guess the third time is the charm. BTW, it was 10:00 when I got to see it.
Tim Avery (1 Sep 2007) - I just received secondhand information that Steve and Cindy Sommerfield had relocated the Neotropic Cormorant at Quichipa Lake in Iron County, this morning, Saturday September 1st.
Aug 2007
Larry Tripp (31 Aug 2007) - The Neotropic Cormorant was still there tonight. I got to the lake at about 5:00 pm and looked in the spot where Rick first saw it and it wasn't there. I saw a lot of Cormorants were toward the south end of the Lake so I drove down the road on the west side ( coming from Cedar City it's the first left heading south after passing the lake. I went to 2000 south and drove the dirt road towards the lake parked and walked to the shore line. Looking to the south I first saw the bird on the dike that crosses the lake close to the south end. Rick showed up shortly after that and the bird had flown to the east side and was mixed in with a lot of D C Cormorants and White Pelicans. It took us a while to relocate the bird. When it's in the open it's pretty easy to pick out but it spent some time back in the bushes where it's hard to see. We watched it until sunset.
Tim Avery (30 Aug 2007) - I received a phone call from Rick Fridell around 11:30 this morning reporting a 1st year Neotropic Cormorant at Quichipa Reservoir/Lake just west of Cedar City. He told me the bird was sitting with Double-crested Cormorants on a fence line in the water along the west shore of the lake. Rick was headed to the west desert but plans on stopping back by the lake tomorrow evening to check on the bird. Also present were an adult Bald Eagle and a juvenile Eagle sp., as well as Common and Black Terns.
Jan 2006
Kate Grandison (11 Jan 2006) - I saw a very bright colored (California 'Robin red-breast') Red-shouldered Hawk yesterday. It was an adult perched in a cottonwood tree on the SE corner of the intersection of 2300 W and Midvalley Road on the north side of Cedar City. UTM's 0315774E 4181584N. Great bird and very cooperative.. willing to sit and let us admire it for 20 minutes .
Oct 2005
Larry Tripp (15 Oct 2005) - Birded the last couple of days with a friend visiting from Southern California, Peyton Cook. ...On the way home we stopped in Iron County at Quichapa Lake and had a male Long-tailed Duck, 2 Dunlin and a Pectoral Sandpiper...
Oct 2004
Joel and Kathy Beyer (15 Oct 2004) - We saw the pair of Lawrence's Goldfinch this morning in Kanarraville. They were in a tree on Main Street across from the LDS church. We only got to look at them for less than a minute before they flew to parts unknown. An hour of diligent searching was goldfinchless.
Steve Summers (12 Oct 2004) - This afternoon around 4 pm a visiting birder from Washington state reported to me a pair of Lawrence's Goldfinches in the town of Kanarraville, Iron Co. This is about 18 miles south of Cedar City. She saw the birds very well and certainly described this species to me. She is familiar with the species from California. They were seen along the street between the LDS Church and the Red Lodge R.V. park about a half block west of the main road...
Jun 2004
Dave Allen - While traveling from Salt Lake to Las Vegas on the 18th I saw a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher at the rest stop just to the north of Parowan on I-15. It was flying around the west area out towards the field just past the large tree.
May 2004
Steve Summers - The imm. Brown Pelican was still at New Castle Res., Iron Co. this morning (Sat. 5/15) between 10a – 11a.
Merrill Webb (13 May 2004) - The Brown Pelican that was reported by Kevin and Charlie at New Castle Reservoir is still there. It was seen Thursday morning by Glenn Barlow and Merrill Webb. There was also a Peregrine Falcon at the reservoir this morning.
Kevin Wheeler (12 May 2004) - Charlie Sheard and I saw an immature Brown Pelican at Newcastle Reservoir west of Cedar City in Iron County today between 10 and 11:30. It hung out on the south side of the Reservoir, and flew from the far bank to the close bank and then settled in the water on the south end. If you go to look for it, be careful - it seemed plenty skittish for a pelican. Also there were a pair of Common Mergansers, an osprey, and a loon.
Dec 2003
Charlie Sheard (19 Dec 2003) - Today, during the Cedar City CBC, Lee Jones, Max Hodson, Don Myres and I observed a Red-breasted Sapsucker. The bird was an adult male, with plumage characteristics of both the Northern and Southern subspecies. We were able to observe the bird for approximately 30 minutes during which it remained quite still for about 20 minutes. The bird was seen in Cedar City, at the end of the paved portion of Spring Canyon Rd., which is in the general vicinity of East Canyon Park.
Jan 2002
Steve and Priscilla Summers - (Thu, 24 Jan 2002) An imm. Red-shouldered Hawk was along the Minersville Hwy. across from the bowling ally in Cedar City today (Jan 24). The bird has been there since at least Tue. (Jan. 22) when a DWR employee first found it. It was then seen again yesterday by another DWR employee who confirmed it and passed along the information to us today when we went to see it.
May 2001
A male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK was seen at Canyon Park in Cedar City on Saturday, 04/28 (SH,v.o.).
The WHIMBREL, which was seen at Quichapa Lake west of Cedar City on 04/23, was most recently reported on Saturday, 04/28 (MW). Quichapa Lake is just south of SR 56, about 7 miles west of Cedar City.
Apr 2001
A WHIMBREL was seen at Quichapa Lake west of Cedar City on Monday, 04/23 (RD). It was seen again in the same location on Tuesday evening, 04/24 (SS). Quichapa Lake is just south of SR 56, about 7 miles west of Cedar City.
Making a rare appearance outside Washington County, a HOODED ORIOLE was seen visiting a hummingbird feeder in Cedar City on Thursday, 04/19 (SS).
Nov 2000
A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen along Quichapa Lake Road, southwest of Cedar City, on Sunday, 11/19 (SSu). To get there, take SR 56 west from Cedar City for about 8 miles to Quichapa Lake Road, turning south on this road for about 2 miles to where the bird was seen.
About 50 or more BLACK ROSY-FINCHES were seen along the New Harmony Road on Sunday, 11/12 (P&SS). They were about 0.6 miles west of exit 42 on I-15.
July 2000
The start of the Fall migration was noted in Cedar City, when the season's first RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was seen coming to a feeder (SS).
January 2000
A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW was seen in Cedar Valley west of Cedar City on Saturday, 01/01 (P&SS).
The RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, which has been seen intermittantly in Cedar Valley west of Cedar City, was seen again on Friday, 01/07 (reported by SS). The bird was very close to where it was originally seen, at the intersection of 2800 North and 3900 West.
The RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, which has been seen intermittantly in Cedar Valley west of Cedar City, was seen again on Sunday, 01/09 (P&SS). The bird was seen at the intersection of 2800 North and 4100 West.
A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW was seen along 3900 West in Cedar Valley on Sunday, 01/09 (P&SS). The bird was about a mile south of 2800 North.
December 1999
A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was seen in Cedar Valley west of Cedar City on Monday, 12/13 (PS). It was seen about 1/4 mile north of the intersection of 4100 West and 2800 North, close to where one was seen in December of last year. This is the tenth reported sighting of Red-shouldered Hawk in Utah.
The RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, which was seen in Cedar Valley west of Cedar City on 12/13, was seen again on the Cedar City CBC on Friday, 12/17 (SS). It was seen about 3/4 mile south of the previous location, along 3900 West about 1/2 mile south of 2800 North. Efforts to locate the bird on Monday, 12/20, were unsuccessful.
A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK continues to be occasionally seen in Cedar Valley west of Cedar City, with the most recent report from Sunday, 12/26 (C&SA). Efforts to find the bird since then have been unsuccessful, but the bird may still be in the area.
April 1999
Nine BAND-TAILED PIGEONS were seen at the IFA grain elevators in Cedar City on Friday, 04/30 (J&KB).
February 1999
Two female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE were seen at the pond at the Kanarraville Rest Area on I-15 on Sunday, 02/07 (SS). This may be the first record for this species in Iron County.
Two female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE were still present on the pond at the Kanarraville Rest Area on I-15 as of Thursday, 02/18. On the same day, numerous MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS were seen in Cedar Valley (JK,SS,LW).