Great Salt Lake Audubon Field Trip
- When: Saturday, August 23rd 7:30am – 3pm
- Where: SALT LAKE INTERNATIONAL CENTER
- Leaders: Tim Avery
- Join GSL Audubon for a morning birding the Salt Lake International Center Migrant Trap. In less than a year, nearly 150 species have been tallied at this location that looks unlike any other migrant trap in the west. Large warehouses and vacant lots lined with cottonwoods, Russian olives, poplars, and other decorative trees. Hedgerows, lines of willows, and numerous patches of thick understory, as well as several ponds, canals, and weedy patches, help to create an oasis on the south end of the Great Salt Lake that attracts southbound migrants by the flock in the fall. We should be treated to warblers, vireos, sparrows, and a handful of other passerine migrants. Tanagers, orioles, grosbeaks, buntings, woodpeckers, and hawks are also often found meandering through the trees. We will cover many of the most productive areas and give those unfamiliar with the area a crash course in birding this extensive and somewhat incredible urban jungle! Plan on meeting at the Shopko in Sugarhouse at 7:30am and birding the IC for most of the morning. Food and water are available on site at several restaurants and a gas station. If time permits and participants are willing we may visit several other south shore locations for shorebirds, waterfowl and other fall migrants. We will plan on being back to Sugarhouse.
- More information: no later than 3:00pm.Call Tim (440-3035) if you have any questions.
Field trips have to be planned well in advance.
Occasionally we have to cancel a trip, or location or times change.
Therefore it is important to confirm details with the leader.
Beginners and guests are always welcome on Audubon field trips.
For more information
contact Deedee O'Brien at d-dobrien@comcast.net
or Sylvia Gray at pdggray@xmission.com
We encourage carpooling on our field trips. Drivers appreciate contributions to help pay for fuel. For local routes of under 40 miles round trip, we suggest $3 per person and for longer ones we suggest $5 or more per person.
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