March is here and so are the tundra swans. Today, I took a quick drive around the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge auto tour route to see how the tundra swan migration is shaping up and I was pleasantly surprised when I came across thousands of swans all over the auto loop. March is typically […]
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Sometimes when I am out bird watching I find a scene that just grabs my attention and holds it. And when do I come across these scenes, I always try to capture them with a camera to share with others how beautiful nature really is. A couple of days ago while traversing the Bear River
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When I headed out to Antelope Island this afternoon, I honestly wasn’t thinking of burrowing owls as I just had one thing and one thing only on my mind, sunsets. Anytime there is a dash of clouds over the Great Salt Lake in the late afternoon, like there was today, in fact, I turn down
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If you’ve never seen a greater sage grouse dance you are truly missing out on one of the strangest yet most enchanting mating rituals in the bird world. Each spring, male greater sage grouse congregate on traditional breeding grounds known as leks for their odd yet vital courtship displays to win the rights to breed
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A big part of the enjoyment of bird watching is making friends, lots and lots of friends who love birds. Over the years, I have made numerous friends while out birding and I hope that trend continues. In fact, as I am out and about almost daily with my camera searching for interesting topics to
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Thanks to several days of abnormally warm February weather last week and a couple of very out-of-season butterfly sightings at Farmington Bay, my mind has now started to wander towards, well, you guessed it, butterflies, namely the beautiful two-tail swallowtail butterfly. Yes, you read that right, I have already seen several butterflies this year and
As a bird watcher, wouldn’t you agree when those moments of up close and personal birding encounters do present themselves it can oftentimes be quite an exhilarating experience? I know as an avid bird watcher myself it surely is as I love those uniquely special moments with a bird when they do indeed happen. Now
In addition to my passion for bird watching, I love to hike and explore the outdoors. I also love a great sunset so when the two come together it can make for a spectacular evening like it did a couple of weeks ago one Saturday evening out on Antelope Island. Normally when I photograph sunsets
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If you’re starting to see fewer and fewer bald eagles over the past several weeks, you are not alone. I struggled to find even one eagle today and only four in the past week so it appears the bald eagle viewing season here along the Wasatch Front is starting to come to an early close.
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a great love for nature, especially for birds. Case in point, it has been over 40 years now since my dad gave me my first exposure to the world of bird watching as we both casually walked the main dike at Farmington Bay, binoculars in hand
There’s a saying around my house that states all birds and no butterflies makes Jeff a dull boy. I love bird watching more than just about anything else I do in nature, but I also love watching, photographing, and learning about other creatures that we share this world with, particularly butterflies. A few years ago
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If there’s one thing I know about our avian friends it’s this, to learn about birds you simply go and watch birds. Yes, it really is that simple. Just go bird watching and keep your eyes open and nature will reveal all kinds of secrets to you. As I was sorting through some old images
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I don’t know about you but for me at least, hearing the silence of winter break with the sweet sounds of a red-winged blackbird for the first time of the year is nothing short of pure gold in my book. As I write this blog post, February is not even halfway over and I am
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There is something so magical yet quite indescribable about visiting a wetland as the sun retires for the day, especially when the backdrop is a mesmerizing sunset loaded with color. Add to it a chorus of squabbling Canada geese and a few flocks of migrating tundra swans in the background and you have the age-old
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We’ve all heard the phrase “Here today, Gone Tomorrow” haven’t we? Well, if you’re a bird watcher you most certainly have some experience with the phrase to some degree, especially if you do any birding during the winter months. Today was a stark reminder of just how fickle winter bird watching can be, especially when
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