Saturday June 29, 2019
I left early (5:00 a.m.) in the morning to visit the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. I was seduced by baby avocet pictures on their Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/BearRiverMBR/ There were so very many birds, it was awesome.
I ended up making the circle twice and I’m very happy I did. It was on the second loop that I finally spotted one of these cute youngsters.
It was on the second loop that I also got a good look at one of my favorite birds: Wilson’s phalerope.
American white pelicans in flight
Great blue heron
Cliff swallows
Preening American white pelican
White faced ibis
Black crowned night heron
Black necked stilt
Snowy egret showing off his clown feet
Forster’s tern in flight
One of my personal photography goals is to catch the aquamarine color of the Double crested cormorant’s eyes. Here, I’m getting closer to the picture I want.
I got home by 12:30 and went back to the work of recreating my office into more of a studio for my work in photos and paper. — Jenny
Birdlist
- Red tailed hawk
- Franklin’s gulls
- Cliff swallows
- Western meadowlarks
- Common ravens
- American crows
- Swainson’s hawk
- Savannah sparrow
- Red winged blackbirds
- American kestrels
- Barn swallows
- Killdeer
- California gulls
- American white pelicans
- American avocets
- White faced ibis
- Western kingbirds
- Northern harriers
- Grasshopper sparrows
- Ring necked pheasants
- Gadwalls
- Great blue herons
- Mallards
- Eastern kingbirds
- Forster’s terns
- Marsh wrens
- Yellow headed blackbirds
- Great horned owls
- Pied billed grebes
- Clark’s grebe
- Brown headed cowbirds
- Cinnamon teals
- Snowy egrets
- Northern shovelers
- Long billed curlews
- American coots
- Black necked stilts
- Northern pintails
- Western grebes
- Double crested cormorants
- Redheads
- Ruddy ducks
- Canada geese
- House sparrows
- Wilson’s phaleropes
- American robins
- Sandhill cranes
- Black billed magpies
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