And thus I bring you ( Read more... )

to the lovely and effulgent myfeetshowit! May your day be filled with prezzies and calorie-free cake, hon ( Read more... )

The Tracy Aviary is having a free day tomorrow to thank us for raising our own taxes. We're going to go and take advantage of that, and make it a field trip. It'll be chilly, but worth it, I think. They have four species of toucans ( Read more... )

But I wanted it today...Yeah, we went to Cougar Park and grocery shopping today. We saw three doves at the park, and that was the sum total of birds. However, we also saw coyote poop, deer poop, mouse trails, and gopher mounds, along with wolf spiders. And we engaged in some cleanup, because trash apparently gets blown into the park a lot. So ( Read more... )

Antelope Island!

"What?" you say. "AGAIN?"

Well, yes, sez I. Because you see something different everytime you go.

We saw the aforementioned seagulls and avocets and grebes. Yay for that.

But we also saw Black-Necked Stilts. And a Peregrine Falcon!Most people go their entire lives without seeing a wild Peregrine Falcon. I feel incredibly ( Read more... )

OMG. We had the BEST day today.

We got up hellishly early to go birdwatching at the Nature Conservancy's Layton Marsh Wetland Preserve. Dudes! It was so cool.

We saw a Peregrine Falcon!!! I've never seen a wild Peregrine Falcon before! And we saw Virginia Rails. Chasing each other and making funny noises. And I saw my first ever Hermit ( Read more... )

We went down to Nine Mile Canyon on Saturday.

We thought it would be cool.

And it kind of was.

But it was also kind of a bust, to be honest. Either whoever wrote the guide to the canyon was on crack, or we are just that unobservant, because we didn't see a whole bunch of stuff that they said was there. And you've heard the phrase "forty miles ( Read more... )

I dragged us out of bed at silly o'clock this morning, and we wandered over to Cougar Park, which is supposedly one of the best places in Salt Lake County for seeing Burrowing Owls ( Read more... )

( Under the cut because, whoa, they're huge... )

...at not having my camera yesterday, we wandered up the Jordan River Parkway, because that's apparently a good place for birding ( Read more... )