December 17: Chris Cokinos and Mark Ellis found a single Bohemian waxwing
along the Bear River in Amalga, a section of their CBC area.
Also seen by Chris, Mark, Stephen Peterson and Eric Meyer, in the area,
was a lone immature bald eagle. A full CBC spp. listing from all groups will be made available soon.

December 4: Sue Drown reports finding an Eurasian collared-dove at the Newton Cemetery.

December 3: Reinhard Jockel and Buck Russell were able to find a red-naped sapsucker
and a flock of Audubon (yellow-rumped) warblers at Smithfield's Mack Park.

November 24: Buck Russell reports that the American tree sparrows are back
at Bud Phelps. He found several of them in the morning, walking along the main canal
on the north side of the road. He also saw some marsh wrens, song sparrows,
black-capped chickadees, western meadowlarks, and a northern harrier.

November 19: Buck Russell reports that the BAS field trip to the Logan sewage lagoons
produced a single, male long-tailed duck, four snow geese, a canvasback, and a couple
of immature herring gulls.

November 16 : Sue Drown reports 3 adult herring gulls (3rd year), in the field just across
the water behind the fish hatchery.

November 13: Stephen Peterson reports the return of 9 male and 3 female Barrow's goldeneye
and 1 female common goldeneye at 1st dam.

November 3: Dave Klagge reported a single immature male rose-breasted grosbeak
at a feeder in Logan at 1561 E 1220 N.

October 31 : Bob Huntington reported a Pacific loon and surf scoter at Hyrum reservoir.

October 19 : Stephen Peterson reports seeing a single female merlin in his backyard, on
top of a utility pole, eating a junco.

August 24: Stephen Peterson reports seeing 12 red-necked phalaropes in non-breeding
plumage, 3 of them juveniles, and a single peregrine falcon out on the Amalga Barrens Sanctuary.

August 7: Stephen Peterson reports finding a single male American three-toed woodpecker
and a few calliope hummingbirds in the campground area of Tony Grove lake.

August 6 : BAS field trip to Logan sewage treatment wetland turned up the following species of note:
marbled godwit, solitary sandpiper, pectoral sandpiper, Baird's sandpiper, Western sandpiper,
greater yellowlegs, least sandpiper.

August 1 : Bob Atwood got great looks at a single male American three-toed woodpecker
along the Limber Pine trail up Logan canyon.

June 23 : Sue Drown reports 2 blue grosbeaks on the creek at the Cache/Box Elder Co.
line, south of Valley View highway. They were singing in the trees to the north of where the
road crosses the creek. There's a buteo nest in a tall tree on the north - one bird was in the
next tree beyond that, a round shaped tree/large bush.

June 4 : Stephen Peterson observed 1 male and 1 female bobolink displaying breeding
behavoir in Young Ward. Other notable birds were violet-green and Northern rough-winged swallows
and the musical stylings of soras.

June 2 : Buck Russell and Reinhard Jockel report seeing 4 least sandpiper in the ponds on
the south side of the Logan airport road. They also found a common nighthawk, black-crowned night herons,
and 2 common yellowthroats at Benson Marina. On Mendon road at the Logan river bridge, they found a
pair of mandarin ducks.

May 21: Buck Russell and Reinhard Jockel saw bobolinks early Saturday afternoon,
on the old Mendon Highway at the bridge over Logan River. They were on the north side of the road there.

May 16: Bryan Dixon reports seeing a single male rose-breasted grosbeak in Hyde Park.
This is only the third reported sighting of this species in Cache Valley.

May 15: Dave & Sue Drown and Keith & Judy Archibald report seeing a palm warbler near Petersboro.

May 5: Sue Drown reports the following; I've seen some Western sandpipers and 4
semipalmated plovers along the Amalga road lately.  Also, 2 bonaparte's gulls,
(neither yet in full breeding plumage) and 3 of what I took to be sanderlings, one male
in breeding plumage. The gulls and sanderlings are at the farm that is just N of the oxbow
which often has gulls in its fields.  The Bonapartes are with all the franklin's gulls in the fields
E of the road.  For the Sanderlings, take the sideroad that turns E at that farm and look S into
the part of the fields that are muddy, no plants.  It was a longish view with my scope, but maybe
they will move in so someone can get a better look.

May 1: Bryan Dixon reports seeing black-throated gray warbler, plumbeous vireo, Virginia warbler,
orange-crowned warbler, canyon wren, chukar and a red-naped sapsucker in Green Canyon.
He also heard a ruffed grouse drumming.

May 1: Stephen Peterson reports spotting Wilson's phalaropes on the Amalga Barrens Sanctuary.

May 1: Nancy Williams reports seeing dozens of American avocets, black-necked stilts,
Wilson's phalaropes, four eared grebes and numerous ducks on the Amalga Barrens.
Also reports a dozen snowy egrets and two flocks of white-faced Ibis out on Hyde Park Lane.

April 30: Stephen Peterson reports seeing a short-eared owl, 15 plus eared grebes and
2 brewer's sparrows on the Amalga Barrens Sanctuary.

April 29: Stephen Peterson reports a single horned grebe, and two pairs of blue-winged teal,
on the Amalga Barrens Sanctuary. Area is flooded to perimeter boundaries all the way around.
Six confirmed Canada Goose nests have been flooded out.

April 23: Stephen Peterson reports from USU Nature Writers class field trip to Benson Marina,
where they spotted a great egret, long-billed curlew, osprey, marbled godwit, American avocet,
Clark's grebe, cliff and tree swallows and black-crowned night heron. Also reports a single
greater yellowlegs mixed in with American avocets and black-necked stilts out on Hyde Park Lane.

April 17: Stephen Peterson reports 5 marbled godwits flying overhead on the Amalga Barrens Sanctuary.

April 12: Dominique Roche reported that the cackling goose (reported previously) was still at the
Oxbow overlook of Cutler Reservoir this morning. Its white collar is evident. As previously identified,
it seems to be a nice specimen of Branta hutchinsis leucopareia, the Aleutian subspecies. A large flock
of bohemian waxwings (between 320 and 340) has been seen at 800 E., just 100 yards south of the
intersection with 1400 N. in Logan. The birds sit on two trees only and were present there all the time
from 5:30 to 7 p.m. It is next to a small USU orchard. It is on the east side of the road, and there is some
room to pull over.

April 10: A cackling goose, Aleutian subspecies (leucopareia), was seen at the Oxbow overlook by
Ron Ryel, Larry Ryel, Melanie Spriggs, Keith Archibald, Judy Archibald, Bryan Dixon and Jean Lown.
The bird had a distinct white neck band (bordered below by a black band). It was with a larger resident
Canada Goose and was decidedly smaller with a much smaller, stubby bill and short neck.