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Archive for September, 2019

Tanager Three

Wednesday, September 18th, 2019
Western Tanager (female), East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 September 2019.
Western Tanager (female).

Nice hike this fallish morning. Interesting bird assortment—including my third-ever Western Tanager.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 8:45 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.

1. Black-billed Magpie*
2. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
3. House Finch*
4. Spotted Towhee
5. Black-capped Chickadee
6. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (v)
6. Broad-tailed Hummingbird
7. Northern Flicker (v)
8. Western Tanager

Elsewhere

9. Eurasian Collared Dove
10. California Quail
11. House Sparrow
12. Lesser Goldfinch
13. Rock Pigeon
14. Song Sparrow

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere

Finches, Revisited

Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
Lesser Goldfinch (male), East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 17 September 2019.
Lesser Goldfinch (male).

A nondescript kind of day. Hazy/sunny, cool/warm, not a lot of wind. And finches dining on sunflower seeds all day long.

East Millcreek List
No mountain hike today, but here’s what I saw and/or heard.

1. Lesser Goldfinch
2. Black-billed Magpie
3. House Sparrow
4. Eurasian Collared Dove
5. House Finch
7. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
8. European Starling
9. Downy Woopecker (v)

v = Voice only

Windy Day

Monday, September 16th, 2019
Mr House Finch likes sunflower seeds.
Mr House Finch likes sunflower seeds.

A southwest wind kinda put the damper on migration today. Not much activity on the mountain this morning. So here’s a photo of a House Finch nibbling on sunflowers in my front yard.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 8:45 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.

1. Black-billed Magpie*
2. House Finch* (v)
2. Spotted Towhee
3. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
4. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay* (v)
6. Hummingbird (sp)
7. Northern Flicker (v)
8. Turkey Vulture

Elsewhere

9. Eurasian Collared Dove
10. California Quail
11. House Sparrow
12. Lesser Goldfinch

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere

 
Bird Report is a (sometimes intermittent) record of the birds I encounter while hiking, see while driving, or spy outside my window. —Brian Willson



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