BlueRavenBirders

Saturday August 10, 2019

Melinda and I decided to leave Pocatello early and bird the Bear River refuge in the morning, shop in the afternoon, and bird out by Saltair in the evening. It was a fabulous day. The next morning Melinda caught a plane back to Texas. — Jenny

1000’s of Bank Swallows were migrating through the refuge

American white pelican

Canada geese

Angus cow

Snake

Eastern kingbird

Great blue heron

Smoke stack near Saltair

American avocets

Pronghorn

Birds

1. Black billed magpies
2. Rock doves
3. Trumpeter swans
4. European starlings
5. EC doves
6. Mourning doves
7. Franklin’s gulls
8. California gulls
9. Red tailed hawks
10. Wilson’s warblers
11. Barn swallows
12. Cliff swallows
13. Red winged blackbirds
14. House sparrows
15. Bank swallows (1000s of them)
16. Tree swallows
17. Brewer’s blackbirds
18. Northern harriers
19. American white pelicans
20. Forster’s terns
21. Great horned owls
22. Canada geese
23. Western grebe
24. Eastern kingbirds
25. Grasshopper sparrows
26. Marsh wrens
27. American avocets
28. Black necked stilts
29. Spotted sandpipers
30. Green winged teals
31. Solitary sandpipers
32. Cinnamon teals
33. American coots
34. Turkey vulture
35. Ring billed gulls
36. Great blue herons
37. Double crested cormorants
38. Killdeer
39. Ring necked pheasants
40. Common ravens
41. Common yellowthroat
42. Caspian tern
43. Western kingbird
44. Snowy egret
45. Wilson’s phalarope
46. Common grackle
47. Mallard
48. Yellow headed blackbirds

Mammals

• Antelope / Pronghorn