New Life Bird

Birders are always on the look out for a new lifer or life bird, a bird that is new to their life list. As I have added more and more life birds to my list they become harder to find. I watch the bird list serves for birds that have been spotted that I have never seen in the field and sometimes take a whole day traveling to find a bird that has been reported. Last year
Frank and I took a day off work to drive out to Fish Springs in the west desert to see a Painted Bunting, and we did see it.

Well last Friday I found a new life bird for Utah. Though I have seen this bird before down in Arizona, this was the first time I had seen it in Utah. The bird was the Eurasian Collared Dove. There were 30 or more in the big tree at the gate of Farmington Bay. It is always a thrill to get a new bird on my list. My target bird for this winter is the Evening Grosbeak, a bird that has eluded me for many years.