Logan is only 30 minutes away from the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. I went to bed early and then was out of the hotel by 7:00 a.m. This time I was not going to miss the early morning light. I spent almost 4 hours at the refuge, it was a gorgeous day.
Morning grebes
Ring necked pheasants 
Snowy egret
Red winged blackbirds with cliff swallow nests 
Avocets in eclpse plumage
Avocets 2 
Avocets and Northern shovelers
White faced ibis in flight 
White faced ibis landing
White faced ibis duo 
Takeoff
White faced ibis reflection 
American white pelican
Great blue heron 
Grebe with fishies
Blue pond of coots 
Pelican takeoff with coots scrambling to get out of the way.
The full sequence of this Pelican’s takeoff can be found on my Flickr account. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsemenza/albums/72157687439595914
Not quite airborn, again. 
Up at last
I am so happy with the photos this camera can take. I’m also pleased that all the rodeo photography has improved my reaction time, to grab the camera and get the subject in the viewfinder. Catching a tern on the wing … I didn’t think I had a chance.
Forster’s tern 
Forster’s tern diving
A scamper of ducks 
A flight of pelicans
Autumn raven 
Swarming barn swallows
A flock, okay very small flock of about 5 vesper sparrows were very kind to me and posed at the side of the road near my car.
Vesper sparrow 
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04, and lucky to get this photo at all
Ravens and blue sky 
A lovely birding morning. I’ll add my bird list later. I’m heading off for Spanish Fork and my next adventure shortly. — Jenny
It’s later (Oct 19th to be exact) Here’s my bird list:
1 Sandhill cranes
2 Red winged blackbirds
3 Ring necked pheasants
4 California gulls
5 Killdeer
6 Western meadowlarks
7 Common ravens
8 Forster’s terns
9 Snowy egrets
10 Mallards
11 White faced ibis
12 Great blue herons
13 Northern harriers
14 American avocets
15 Northern shovelers
16 American white pelicans
17 American coots
18 Common grebes
19 Western grebes
20 Pied billed grebes
21 Vesper sparrows
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