Long-eared Goat at Thanksgiving Point

Hawaiian Stilts

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Black-necked stilts (hawaiian race) at Kaelia Ponds Bird Preserve, Maui, HI.

Capitol Reef National Park

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Picture of cliffs near Hickman Bridge, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

Utah Lake State Park

   

Utah Lake State Park is found at the Extreme east end of Center street in Provo Utah a few miles east of I-15. Launch a boat, do some fishing, have a picnic, bar-b-que, do some bird watching, camp, or just enjoy the beautiful 360 degree view

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of Utah Valley and the Wasatch Mountains.

Cost is 6 dollars for day use. If you don’t have the money to hang out in the park, when you cross the Provo river and just before entering the park, take a right turn and go a few feet and look to your right. There is a parking lot for the begining (or end) of the Provo River parkway. Another option is to keep going on this road until you run into the T (only a few yards passed the Provo River parkway parking) and take a left. This little parking lot is for Skipper Bay Trail. It is similar to the Provo River parkway, but follows along the lakeshore for about a mile or so.

Enjoy our Utah Outdoors!

Blackbirds

Blackbirds, Blackbirds, have you any wool?

Yes Sir, Yes sir, 3 telephone wires full.

St George

I went to St. George the last weekend in January with a friend for a weekend of birding. It was an amazing weekend. We saw about 55 diferent species that weekend including some life birds for both of us.

Bear River

Bear River Wildlife Refuge is located in Northern Utah near Brigham City, Utah. It is one of the major habitats for migrating birds in the mountain west. During fall and spring hundreds of thousands of birds use it as a pit stop. In the dead of winter however, it is a baren wasteland of ice and frozen mud. This frigid desert is where I spent last Saturday. Hundreds of horned Larks flock together and rummage through the frozen ground looking for seeds and whatever else they can get their beaks on. It turns out that a few species of rare longspurs hang out with these flocks. Several longspur's had been reported over the last few days and so 4 of us Utah County birders took the trip up to find them. After 4 hours of looking at hunderds of sparrow size horned larks through binoculars and spotting scopes and not finding a single longspur, we decided to call it quits and head back home. As we started to head back to the freeway, we got a phone call from the Stackhouse's (a couple that was out looking for them too) saying they had found at least 3 in the flock they were looking at about a quarter of a mile back! We quickly turned around, pulled out the scopes, and got a great look for at least 10 minutes. It was a fun adventure. The brand new nature center is right off the freeway and I would recomend it as a great pit-stop for anyone traveling north.