Yesterday we sat.

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

 KC and I did our Big Sit yesterday.  Our goal was to beat last years total 
of 42 species.  We moved our circle north a few miles (we sat at Lincoln 
Point last year) to the Southwest corner of the Provo Airport Dike.  We 
identified 53 species passing last year by 11. We birded from 6 AM to about 
2 PM and I went back out latter from 6:15 PM to 8 PM.

 Species of interest included a Barn Owl flying over the marsh south of the 
dike at dawn, an unexpected Townsend's Solitaire, Bewick's Wren, Sage 
Thrasher, MacGillivray's Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Greater 
Yellowlegs, and Long-billed Dowitchers.

 We also missed some species I thought we would get like Killdeer and 
Kestrel.  We went out to our count spot the day before and saw a few species 
we weren't able to got on the day of the sit.  These species were Merlin, 
Wilson's Phalarope, Violet-green Swallow, Bank Swallow, and Great Horned 
Owl.  I also saw a Great Horned Owl hunting along the dike on my way out to 
our spot the morning of the sit and saw one again as I was leaving that 
night but we couldn't get one were it counted.  We also we might have seen 
Scaup, Green-winged Teal and some other waterfowl but they were to far out 
to be sure.

 Species List - Big Sit 2003 - Provo Airport Dike

Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Redhead
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier
Ring-necked Pheasant
California Quail
American Coot
Greater Yellowlegs
Long-billed Dowitcher
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Barn Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Barn Swallow
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Bewick's Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Townsend's Solitaire
American Robin
Sage Thrasher
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
House Finch
American Goldfinch



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

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