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Flocks of Phalaropes In Flight – But Which Species?

By |2023-10-13T06:39:40-06:00July 26th, 2020|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Red-necked Phalaropes, Utah, Wilson's Phalaropes|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It is the season of phalarope migration here in the Great Basin hub of the Pacific Flyway and one of the best places to view these shorebirds is along the causeway to Antelope Island State Park.

Common Raven Close Ups On The Shoreline of the Great Salt Lake

By |2023-10-25T06:49:16-06:00March 16th, 2019|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Common Ravens, Davis County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

At first the Common Raven was near the side of the road but it moved down the rocks and got closer to the lake and where it poked around in the rocks.

Great Blue Herons and the Great Salt Lake

By |2021-04-17T18:29:42-06:00August 14th, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It does seem odd though to see Great Blue Herons hanging around the Great Salt Lake after the chicks have fledged like this immature heron I photographed yesterday near the causeway.

Water Dance of Leucistic Eared Grebes on the Great Salt Lake

By |2023-01-03T02:36:51-07:00July 22nd, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Eared Grebes, Leucistic, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I will probably never see and photograph so many leucistic Eared Grebes again in my life time as I did yesterday on the Great Salt Lake.

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