Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
Courtesy US FWSDave Menke, Photographer
One of the species that may be seen
Saturday Dec 6, 2025
Birding with Bridgerland Audubon at the Lundstrom Park Trail.

Meet at the southwest corner of the Smith’s Marketplace parking lot (750 N. Main Street) at 8 AM for carpooling to our destination. We will be walking on a good level path for just over half a mile from Lundstrom Park to the country club golf course and back. The trail follows a small canal and has great edge habitat including numerous fruit trees. Both Ruby-crowned and Golden-crowned Kinglets are likely, Sparrows, Townsend’s Solitaires and some woodpeckers too. You may even spot flamingos or a snowy owl if you look closely in some of the backyards! This is the last scheduled field trip of the year-long series. Thanks to everyone who has attended these and made them a great success.

If driving yourself plan to meet us at Lundstrom Park (1600 East 1350 North, Logan.) Follow 1350 east for a block and a half to the parking lot near the (closed) restrooms at about 8:15AM. We will start along the canal trail from there. We should be done by 10 AM.

Trip leader Dawn Holzer (dawnholzer80@gmail.com, 435-799-1991)

***** Future Events & Trip Reports *****

January 25 – First Dam and USU Water Lab
February 22 – Trapper Park and Logan River Icon Trail
March 22 – Wellsville Reservoir
April 12 – Sue’s Pond – Logan River Wetlands and Shorebird Playa
May 17 – Third Dam/Spring Hollow
June 21 – Bud Phelps Wildlife Management Area
July 19 – Tony Grove
August 23 – Amalga Barrens
September 27 – Benson Marina and Railroad Trail
October 25 – King Nature Park and Green Canyon
November 22 – Hyrum Reservoir and State Park
December 6 – Lundstrom Park Trail

***** Background, the Lundstrom Park Trail *****

eBird:
Birdlist for the Lundstrom Park Trail: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1178813/bird-list
Recent Checklists for the Lundstrom Park Trail: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1178813/recent-checklists
Media Images for the Lundstrom Park Trail: https://media.ebird.org/catalog?regionCode=L1178813

Signed waivers required for all participants. Complete form, print results and bring printed waiver to meeting point.

Barrow’s Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica)
Courtesy US FWS, Donna Dewhurst, Photographer
One of the species that may be seen
Saturday January 25, 2025
Birding with Bridgerland Audubon at First Dam.

 

Trip Report:
We had a hardy 6 souls show up to brave the brisk canyon winds this morning. A nice assortment of old and young, seasoned and new birders. I created a trip report to post on eBird and will do that each time. We saw a good assortment of ducks at First Dam (Common Merganser, Gadwall , Ring-Necked Duck and both species of Goldeneyes). We did not spend a whole lot of time there due to the biting winds and 20 degree temperatures. We retreated to the USU Water Lab and were rewarded with no wind and a great show put on by American Dippers foraging under water right in front of us.
Trip leader Dawn Holzer (dawnholzer80@gmail.com, 435-799-1991)

***** Future Events & Trip Reports *****

January 25 – First Dam and USU Water Lab
February 22 – Trapper Park and Logan River Icon Trail
March 22 – Wellsville Reservoir
April 12 – Sue’s Pond – Logan River Wetlands and Shorebird Playa
May 17 – Third Dam/Spring Hollow
June 21 – Bud Phelps Wildlife Management Area
July 19 – Tony Grove
August 23 – Amalga Barrens
September 27 – Benson Marina and Railroad Trail
October 25 – King Nature Park and Green Canyon
November 22 – Hyrum Reservoir and State Park
December 6 – Lundstrom Park Trail

***** Background, First Dam *****

eBird:
Checklist for First Dam: https://ebird.org/printableList?regionCode=L353707
Recent Checklists for First Dam: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L353707/recent-checklists
Media Images for First Dam: https://media.ebird.org/catalog?regionCode=L353707
Birding with Bridgerland Audubon at First Dam

First Dam Reservoir, Places to Bird in Cache County, Utah Birds, http://www.utahbirds.org/counties/cache/FirstDam.htm

Signed waivers required for all participants. Complete form, print results and bring printed waiver to meeting point.

Background
First Dam and its surroundings, with so much open water, have traditionally been the first place to visit in the year. The Stilt recorded the following from 2009: “First Dam is sure to offer up Common and Barrow’s Goldeneyes as well as other wintering waterfowl.”

eBird reports the following First Dam sightings as of 7 January 2025.
Check out eBird for additional sightings:

Species Name	Count	Date	Observer
Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus	1	7 Jan 2025	Bryant Olsen
Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia	1	2 Jan 2025	Dawn Holzer
Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos	1	1 Jan 2025	Dawn Holzer
>Common Raven Corvus corax	4	1 Jan 2025	Dawn Holzer
House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus	3	1 Jan 2025	Dawn Holzer
Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus	1	1 Jan 2025	Linda Sargent
Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon	1	1 Jan 2025	Linda Sargent
Gadwall Mareca strepera	X	1 Jan 2025	Cullen Clark
Common Merganser Mergus merganser	2	1 Jan 2025	Cullen Clark
American Coot Fulica americana	X	1 Jan 2025	Cullen Clark
Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus	1	1 Jan 2025	Cullen Clark
American Dipper Cinclus mexicanus	1	1 Jan 2025	Cullen Clark
Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum	X	1 Jan 2025	Cullen Clark
Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii	4	1 Jan 2025	Toni Proescholdt
Canada Goose Branta canadensis	150	1 Jan 2025	Toni Proescholdt
Mallard Anas platyrhynchos	90	1 Jan 2025	Toni Proescholdt
Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris	1	1 Jan 2025	Toni Proescholdt
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula	3	1 Jan 2025	Toni Proescholdt
Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica	4	1 Jan 2025	Toni Proescholdt
Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus	2	1 Jan 2025	Toni Proescholdt
Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis	10	1 Jan 2025	Toni Proescholdt
Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia	1	1 Jan 2025	Toni Proescholdt
Additional Taxa (2)
Greater/Lesser Scaup Aythya marila/affinis	1	7 Jan 2025	Bryant Olsen
Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type) Anser	5	1 Jan 2025	Mike Fish