On Sunday morning I was able to refind the PACIFIC WREN first found by Ned Bohman at the TNC Torrance Ranch in the Oasis Valley north of Beatty. The wren favors the area near the start of the boardwalk, where the trail turns north near a bench in deep shade. A calling VARIED THRUSH was traveling with American Robins on the Amargosa River downstream of the U.S.-95 bridge in Beatty, though I never actually got eyes on it.
This morning, Pahrump's Discovery Park hosted a pure-looking "YELLOW-SHAFTED" NORTHERN FLICKER and a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. A very late WILSON'S WARBLER was at Calvada Eye Park in Pahrump.
Early this afternoon, I found a juvenile YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER in the southwest corner of the Mountain Springs Saloon parking lot, along NV-160 in the Spring Mountains. I then found a female VARIED THRUSH at Spring Mountain State Park, making the fourth reported from the Las Vegas Valley in the last week. To end the day, Rose Strickland and Dennis Ghiglieri helped me refind the continuing GRAY CATBIRD at Floyd Lamb Park in North Las Vegas.
