Bear River and Antelope Isalnd

["Tim Avery" <tanager at timaverybirding dot com>]

I spent the morning at Bear River NWR and the Antelope Island Causeway.  
At Bear River, there will still a lot of young birds.  Didn't see much 
in the way of shorebird migration, but I was spending more time taking 
pictures than looking for dots on the horizon.

If you haven't been to the causeway in the last week or two, you should 
go just to see the sheer numbers of birds:

5,000+ American Avocets
1,000+ Willets
5,000+ Franklin's Gulls
5,000+ California Gulls
100's Ring-billed Gulls
100's Black-necked Stilts
5,000+ unidentifiable peeps
1,000+ Red-necked and Wilson's Phalarope (had 3 flyby flocks of around 
100 Red-necked Phalarope)
100's Eared Grebes
8 Western Sandpipers
1 Long-billed Curlew

Quite a sight to see, and chances are migration for shorebirds should 
start picking up within the next couple weeks.  I just wish the peeps 
that were out there, were closer to the road :(

Here are today's pictures:

http://www.timaverybirding.com/photos.html

Good Birding

Tim

http://www.timaverybirding.com
Salt Lake City, UT or Wherever the Birds Take Me!
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