April 2016 – to West Yellowstone, Mammoth, Bozeman (and rock show), and back to West Yellowstone and home with Shanna, John, & Bill. Trumpter swan, Island Park ID Gibbon river Beryl spring Mammoth terraces Top of the Mammoth terraces Bison Moody terraces Looking down the white terraces at Mammoth Some of us Bison Baby bison Bozeman … More Time Travel: April 2016 Yellowstone
May 14 2016 GSL Bird Festival with Regina and Katrina, workshops, dutch oven dinner, and birds, birds, birds Nikon’s Birding Adventures Speaker book, dvds Great Salt Lake Bird Festival Dinner speaker: Julie Zickenfoose. She was a fascinating speaker and author of the book: Baby birds Western screech owl Great horned owl Barn owl Burrowing owl … More Time Travel: May 14 2016 GSL Bird Festival
May 15 2016 Antelope Island with Regina & Katrina Bison sculpture Bison Western meadowlark Great horned owl Loggerhead shrike Burrowing owl Baby ravens American avocets One of three angry bird buoys
May 30 2016 Craters of the Moon Trip with John, Bill, and Charissa Spring is the best time to visit Craters of the Moon National Monument https://www.nps.gov/crmo/index.htm. The black lava dirt blooms with low growing flowers in all of the shades of the rainbow. The days are warm and sunny though frequently windy. Later in the … More Time Travel: May 2016 Craters of the Moon
Day trip to Yellowstone with Shanna, Regina, Katrina and Cheryl Back side of the Tetons… Osprey in nest box, Island Park Caspian tern in flight, Island Park Antelope Vesper sparrow Wildflowers Cinnamon teal Muskrat wake Mallard ducklings Clark’s nutcracker Mama and baby black bear Great horned owl nestlings Mountain goat White tailed jack rabbit Elk … More Time Travel: June 6 2016 Yellowstone
Melina, Nan & Sydney come west. This weekend was very busy. Melinda and I go birding in Spanish Fork and the Nebo Loop Rd. Nan’s son Kaleb & his wife Hillary welcome baby Sloan into the world. Lazuli Bunting Turkey Vulture Turkey Vulture Black Chinned Hummingbird Western Kingbird Rainy Nebo Loop A patch of Mules … More Time Travel: June 11 & 12 2016
Another adventure with Melinda. Out to Rockland, up Big Canyon, down Knox Canyon, through Arbon Valley, over to Pocatello via Old Bannock County Hwy. Then a small trip down past Arimo. This time the bird photos did not happen because all of the birds were tiny and fast. Abandoned 1 Abandoned 2 A view A … More Time Travel: June 16, 2016
Birding with Melinda in Idaho: Wolverine Canyon, Scout Mountain, and Hawkins Reservoir and many farmlands in between. This was so much fun. We practiced birding by ear a lot and I tried to take pictures of the many, many, mountain bluebirds, non successfully. The failure of this camera to take pictures of bluebirds was one … More Time Travel: June 18 & 19 2016
Melinda and I birded our way around Grays Lake in June and got to see many wonderful things including a very scruffy red fox, a running carpet that turned out to be a badger and lots of birds. Mammals: 1 Uinta ground squirrel 2 Least chipmunks 3 Red foxes 4 Badger 5 Cotton tail bunny … More Time Travel: June 20 2016
In June of 2016 I went birding at my favorite spot: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. It was a very, very good birding day. American avocets, American coots, American kestrels, American robins, American white pelicans Bank swallows, Barn swallows, Black billed magpies, Brown headed cowbirds, Black crowned night herons Black necked stilts, Bonaparte’s gulls, Common ravens, California gulls, Canada … More Time Travel: June 21, 2016
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