6/4/22
Looking for more desert birds
Yesterday at the Bear River Refuge I fell into conversation with a fellow adventurer. This gentleman goes out to photograph the wild horses in Utah on a regular basis and was very familiar with the roads to Fish Springs NWR. He not only gave me a verbal ‘go here, stop there’ precis but when I pulled out my DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer for Utah he showed me the roads and place to check for wild horses. So we started the morning armed with a plan.
Mourning doves
Pronghorn
Mama with young pronghorns
The only wild horse we spotted
Golden eagle
Simpson Springs, a stop on the Pony Express Road
The road marker, there are many of these along this stretch of road, each one marking another station along the Pony Express route
The station
Window
Side door
View from the window
Western meadowlark
Side door looking back into the station
Birds
- American crows
- Mourning doves
- Golden eagle
- Northern harriers
- Western kingbirds
- Horned larks
- Western meadowlark
- Common ravens
- American robins
- Loggerhead shrikes
- Sagebrush sparrows
- Vesper sparrows
- Brewer’s sparrows
- Green tailed towhees
Mammals
- Cottontail bunny
- Pronghorn antelope
- Wild horse
- Least chipmunk
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