It’s been a little while since I posted anything on the website, no thanks to a severe case of the flu that so far has lasted more than a week now, but I was feeling well enough to visit the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge auto tour route yesterday and made a short YouTube video […]
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Even though I’m not much of a fan of winter, it does bring one thing to the bird watching table per se, fantastic opportunities to view and photograph great blue herons. In more northern parts of the country, great blue herons typically migrate south for the winter, but here in Utah, the great blue heron
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Oh, it’s coming, it is almost here, the winter spectacle of bald eagles is just around the corner. And there is typically no better place to view the wintering bald eagles in Northern Utah than Farmington Bay WMA. I am glad, no, make that I am very excited to report I saw my first bald
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I’m going to be honest here because, well, we’re all friends, right? I hate winter. No, seriously, it’s true. I sincerely and truly despise the winter season for a variety of reasons. It’s cold and wet, bird photography can be difficult, driving in the snow is almost always a nightmare, there’s less daylight to enjoy
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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 front of me on an almost completely frozen over Farmington Bay WMA during the last week of January, several months before they typically arrive, and
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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 as I was out and about, I once again came across that same flock of trumpeter swans in the same field. But shortly after I
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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 my dad taking me on my first real birding trip, a summertime excursion to Farmington Bay WMA many years ago when I was just a
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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 few minutes of watching them through my 600mm camera lens, I was pleasantly surprised to realize I was watching a flock of trumpeter swans. It
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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 to how the entire year has been on the refuge, yesterday had an almost completely empty auto tour route with regards to migrating birds. Fall
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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 and conditions for the bald eagle due to a large amount of waterfowl, an important winter food source for the eagles, that live on and
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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, there really is no better way to learn about birds than to sit and watch them for a spell. I literally have an endless supply
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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 this is simple, wildlife needs our support, both financially and, even more so, politically. And this support only comes when people find the beauty
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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 ever since. But, in all fairness, what bird watcher isn’t mesmerized, at least a little bit, mind you, by a flock of pelicans grabbing a
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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 what I have read this year, their numbers seem to be rebounding slightly but the monarch butterfly still needs a lot of help to get
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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 I can. Antelope Island State Park is one of the best places in Utah to find, photograph, and watch the burrowing owl as numerous pairs
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