Sometimes as bird watchers we unknowingly fall into the trap of believing in the notion more birds always means a better bird-watching experience. Well, I am here to tell you that is not always the case, at least for me, however, it isn’t. It surely wasn’t today, in fact, as I spent time bird watching […]
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Oh, how I love nature, especially when I get the opportunity to photograph and show others via this blog just how interesting it can be in hopes other people will get out and appreciate the natural world around us a bit more as well. This morning, I headed out for one of my favorite places,
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It has been said that crows are one of the most intelligent birds in nature and from a recent observation of them in my yard, I will whole heartily agree. Last week, I came home and found dozens and dozens of crows in my yard and neighborhood. It’s not an uncommon thing for me to
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If you’ve been following the plight of the monarch butterfly in the western United States, you know their numbers have plummeted to an all-time low in recent years. In fact, each year the Xerces Society does a Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count on hundreds of overwintering sites and the numbers from their 2020 count came up
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Today, I took a drive out to Farmington Bay WMA to see how the tundra swan migration is shaping up. Well, suffice it to say, there are thousands of early-arriving swans at Farmington Bay now, a month sooner than normal it seems for this many swans to be here. Instead of a blog post, I
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The miracle of bird migration is arguably one of the greatest wonders of nature and a most fascinating part of bird life that seems to be constantly changing as time goes on. In a simple manner, it has long been understood that birds migrate south to find food in warmer climates during winter and fly
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It’s the dreary doldrums of winter and sometimes the bird watching is a little slow this time of year, even on the famed Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge where I found myself once again this blistery, cold winters morning. Today, to put it bluntly, was one of those days where birds were in short supply
If you’ve been reading this blog for very long, you have certainly noticed my ever-growing fondness for the great blue heron. It might even be an obsession of sorts, if truth be known, especially during the cold winter months when great blue herons can be seen hunkering over a small hole in the ice like
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As a nature photographer who has seen a lot of oddities throughout my travels, I never in a million years thought I would be taking pictures of great blue herons perched on the Farmington Bay heron rookery in late January, but that is exactly what I did yesterday, in fact. As I pulled into the
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If you’ve been out and about looking for the wintering bald eagles along the Wasatch Front but coming up empty-handed, you’re not alone. This year has been a bit unpredictable, especially since Farmington Bay isn’t attracting the dozens of bald eagles it has the past couple of years. Yesterday, I came up with zero bald
A few days ago, one of my readers emailed me with a question about a couple of the places I regularly blog about with regards to them being handicap accessible with an electric mobility scooter. It occurred to me maybe more people have the same question that needs to be answered so I decided to
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Let’s face it, when it comes to birding, the chukar partridge isn’t at the top of very many bird watchers’ shortlist of must-have birds to check off for the year. It just doesn’t command the attention from us bird watchers like the bald eagle or barn owl does. Well, I am here to tell you
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If there is one thing I’ve learned the past couple of years while out bird watching, it’s to always expect the unexpected. As an example, during the last couple of days of January of 2021, I sat and watched an American white pelican as well as a white-faced ibis land right in front of me
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One of the greatest bird-watching spectacles during spring migration has to be, without question, the thousands of migrating tundra swans that come through northern Utah each and every spring. Usually, in late February, small flocks of tundra swans start showing up on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and Farmington Bay with the population usually
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I’ve done it. You’ve done it. Many people have done it, too, in fact. If truth be told, we’ve all done it at one point or another on our journey as bird watchers, haven’t we? Sure we have so let’s be open and honest here, every bird watcher has, at least once and probably more
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