Antelope Island is one of my very favorite places in Utah to visit. This is the first winter we've actually made an effort to go, and it's a very different place this time of year than in spring or summer. No spiders. Weird ducks. Bald eagles! It's cold, but still beautiful. I shot 30 pictures I thought were worth posting (new camera continues to ( Read more... )

Twenty-four photos of a Surf Scoter, Ruddy Ducks, a Red-Shafted Flicker, a Prairie Falcon, Mule Deer, Long-Billed Curlew, a Great Horned Owl, and American Pipits ( under the cut... )

In this set, mammals and baby great horned owls.

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So, after sorting through them and doing the crop-resize-and-enhance thing, it appears that I took forty pictures I really liked yesterday. I'll do two posts of twenty each. And, since there are so freaking many, I'm going to be shortcutting the html.

First up, birds.

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Ten more! More birds, some pronghorns, and a mule deer in velvet. ( Under the cut they go! )

As promised, I'm posting some of the pictures I shot on Antelope Island yesterday. Since I found twenty (out of the more than 100 that I took) that I thought worthy of sharing, I'm splitting this into two posts of ten pix each. So. Image-heavy, clearly, and ( click the magic LJ-cut for birds! )

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