Subject: Valley trip
Date: Apr 10 20:22:05 2004
From: Gaylord Mink - gmink at bentonrea.com


Took an Australian visitor to check out birds at Mosebar ponds:

6 Avocets,10+ Black-necked Stilts, several hundred Canada Geese, 6 Snow
Geese,
50+ White Pelicans, 100+ Dunlin, 8 Cinnamon Teal, 12 Green-winged Teal,
several Gadwall and Mallards, 6 Redhead, 3 Northern Pintail, 4 Great Blue
Heron, 10 Double-crested Cormorants, 12 Song Sparrows, 3 Greater
Yellowlegs, 4 White-crowned Sparrows, 10 Coot, 2 American Kestrel, 1
Red-tailed Hawk,, 2 crows, 2 Robins,
10 Yellow-headed Blackbirds, 15 Red-winged Blackbirds, 2 Bank Swallows, 2
Western Meadowlarks, 2 Killdeer, 4 Bufflehead, 6 Northern Shoveler, 2
Magpie, 2 Northern Harriers, and 1 Coyote

At a roadkill on Highway 22 west of Satus:
7 Turkey Vultures taking turns at the banquet.

One Red-tailed Hawk sitting on a nest along Bunn road.

Gaylord Mink