BlueRavenBirders

Sunday September 22, 2019

On my way home from Price I was making such good time that I decided to go round my favorite refuge. The phragmites controlled burn happened in one of the units a few days prior so there was quite a bit of burned vegetation. This did not stop the wading birds and swallows from feasting on bugs and fish. The ibises were glorious. – Jenny

American white pelican

Pelican fishing

Great blue heron

Refuge color

White faced ibis silhouette

White faced ibis

Ring billed gull

Ibis landing

Ibis in irridescent green

So many blackbirds

American avocet

Feeding avocets

Snowy egret

Brewer’s blackbirds

Sandhill cranes

Birds

1. Barn swallows
2. Double crested cormorants
3. American white pelicans
4. Snowy egrets
5. Forster’s terns
6. Cliff swallows
7. Franklin’s gulls
8. American coots
9. Red tailed hawks
10. Red winged blackbirds
11. Grasshopper sparrow
12. White faced ibis
13. American avocets
14. Ring necked pheasants
15. Northern harrier
16. Vesper sparrows
17. Mallards
18. Canada geese
19. Gadwalls
20. Northern shovelers
21. Great blue herons
22. Clark’s grebes
23. Pied billed grebes
24. Sandhill cranes