May 18, 2019
This was a marvelous day. We got to the island fairly early in the morning while it was overcast and drizzly. The thousands of Eared grebes were particularly noticeable. We birded the cove & beach side of the island for several hours then went into Layton for lunch and thrift store shopping. This first trip found all of the owls and larks and most of the shorebirds/waterbirds.
Once we were rested we went back to the island and birded the ranch side. Here’s where we found the Chukar, the warblers and other birds needing trees. It was closing in on dark so we stopped at a nearby chinese restaurant and called it a successful day of birding.
Franklin’s and California gulls
Eared grebe
Thousands of Eared grebes
Loggerhead shrike
Horned lark
Burrowing owl
Western meadowlark
Chukar
Chukar
Western tanager
Western kingbird all fluffed out because of the cold
Poppies at the ranch on the island
- Red winged blackbird
- White faced ibis
- California gulls
- Western kingbirds
- Northern shoveler
- Cinnamon teals
- Brewer’s blackbirds
- Brown headed cowbirds
- Eastern kingbird
- Cliff swallows
- Western sandpipers
- American avocets
- Mallards
- Franklin’s gulls
- Killdeer
- Common raven
- Eared grebes
- Ring billed gull
- Ruddy ducks
- Forster’s terns
- Western meadowlark
- Horned lark
- Lark sparrow
- Long billed curlews
- Loggerhead shrike
- Burrowing owls
- Black billed magpie
- American robin
- Northern harrier
- Great horned owl
- European starlings
- American kestrel
- Eurasian collared dove
- Prairie falcon
- Chukar
- Canyon wren
- Ring necked pheasants
- Marsh wren
- Western tanager
- Grasshopper sparrow
- Mourning dove
- Wilson’s warbler
- Barn swallows
- Yellow warbler
- White crowned sparrow
- Green tailed towhee
- Willet
- Gadwall
- Wilson’s phalaropes
- Bonaparte’s gulls
- Swainson’s hawk
We also saw an antelope, two coyotes, and a number of bison, none of which were willing to pose. — Jenny & Melinda
“Trilling! “. Thanks Both of you, Loves.
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