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... )

I've been hearing about Beus Pond for a little while, and so we decided to go check it out. They have feeders in the park, so the tweety birds congregate to those, and tweety birds are hard for me to get because they won't hold still. I managed to take several lovely pics. We'd glanced at the pond on the way in and not seen anything but the usual ( Read more... )

Yes, I went back the next day, a little earlier. We saw eighteen species (some not pictured): bufflehead, Canada goose, American coot, great blue heron, belted kingfisher, lesser scaup, greater scaup, red-winged blackbird, magpie, mallard, American goldfinch, red-shafted flicker, red-tailed hawk, ring-necked duck, American Robin, song sparrow, ( Read more... )

Pretty pleased with my bird count yesterday for a super-short trip.

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Photos from Julie Frost's post

Posted by Julie Frost on 3 Dec 2017, 06:46

Not a lot of variety today, but a bunch of new-to-me birds, close up, and not bothered at all by the proximity of these weirdo humans snapping pictures.

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Check him out! Probably attracted to the tweety birds I'm getting in droves at my feeders. Hubby spotted him up on the wall blowing in the wind, and then he flew over to the neighbor's back yard, where I shot better pictures of him through my kitchen window.


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Turns out I decided that 48 of the photos I shot were worthy. Some of them are grainy, but I like them because they're of rarities.

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Clearly, I'm going to have to start going out earlier in the day, because I lose the light way too soon now that Standard Time has descended upon us like a horrible dark cloud of no-sun. However, I did get some fantastic shots today; the Harriers and Red-Tails were out in force, and a few of them were kind enough to pose for me.

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Loads of ducks and red-tailed hawks. Duck ID is hard, yo, but I think I'm right on these. Apologies for the poor quality of some of these; it was late and I was losing the light, as you can see from the sunset pix.

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