Enjoying The Late-Season Migrations While Out Bird Watching
This has been one of the strangest years when it comes to bird watching that I can ever recall. It started off with an American white pelican landing right in…
This has been one of the strangest years when it comes to bird watching that I can ever recall. It started off with an American white pelican landing right in…
Last week, I posted up about a small flock of about 20-30 trumpeter swans visiting a cornfield just north of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. A few days later…
I've been bird watching well over 40 years now, and ducks were some of the first birds that gathered my interest back in the day. I guess that stems from…
As I was driving around the farms and countryside near the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge this afternoon, I came across a flock of swans in a cornfield. After a…
I've been coming to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge for several decades now and I have never seen a year like this one in all my life. Very similar…
Yes, it is that time again, the part of the year when bald eagles start to arrive here in Utah for the winter. Utah has some pretty good winter habitat…
Follow me around for a short while and one thing will become quite apparent, I love bird watching when there are great blue herons around. And if truth be told,…
When it comes to nature, I am all in with regards to trying to educate and encourage people to get out and experience the natural world around us. The reason…
For as long as I've been interested in birds, a period spanning well over 4 decades, the American white pelican has grabbed hold of my heart and hasn't let go…
Monarch butterflies out in the west are in a steep decline, so much so last year's winter counts (2020) in California netted less than 2,000 monarch butterflies. So far from…
Burrowing owls, you got to love them, right? I sure do and that is why I spend countless hours each year photographing and just plain watching them whenever and wherever…
Every time I visit Farmington Bay WMA, I am reminded as I drive by a large pile of dirt of the devastating floods Utah endured during the years of 1983…
Up until this year, I had never been to the annual Antelope Island Bison Roundup and I was determined that needed to change. I had always wanted to go and…
Today, the end of the first week in November, wasn't the best day to go out and try and photograph birds, but even with the low light from the approaching…
Just a quick update for anyone interested in recent and uncommon bird sightings on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. Today, while driving up Forest Street as I was leaving…