Salt Lake Valley

December Snow Storm Plus An American Coot

By |2022-12-13T04:28:23-07:00December 13th, 2022|Categories: American Coots, Birds, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake Valley, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday, after I cleared the snow off of my Jeep for the first time, I drove down to my neighborhood pond in a December snow storm to enjoy the snow.

Dark-eyed Juncos And Seasonal Changes

By |2022-07-03T12:37:02-06:00October 11th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Dark-eyed Juncos, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

One of the seasonal changes I look for in autumn is when I see that the Dark-eyed Juncos have arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.

Late Migrating American Avocets in Utah

By |2021-04-29T04:25:53-06:00November 12th, 2016|Categories: American Avocets, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Most of the American Avocets have migrated away from northern Utah but most years we can have a few stragglers that haven't migrated by this time of the year

Snow Birds – Rough-legged Hawks

By |2021-11-06T09:38:04-06:00January 17th, 2014|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

But for me the "Snow Birds" I have grown to love here in Utah are Rough-legged Hawks who only visit in the winter and spend the rest of their lives breeding in high subarctic and Arctic regions.

It snowed in the Salt Lake Valley yesterday…

By |2021-02-27T03:48:28-07:00October 5th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Coyotes, Davis County, Ring-necked Pheasants, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

And it won't be long before I am photographing wildlife in drifts of snow and birds on perches covered in white.

Appearing Soon – Rough-legged Hawks

By |2022-10-20T16:25:01-06:00October 13th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Last winter was awesome for seeing Rough-legged Hawks and I am hoping they had another great breeding season and that they will show up here in large numbers to over winter.

Merlin Perched In A Tree ~ Friday Photos

By |2024-02-15T03:32:03-07:00January 27th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Merlins, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Merlins are winter visitors in the Salt Lake Valley so I have just a few more weeks to attempt photographing them. Merlins are used to be called "pigeon hawks" because their shape and flight patterns are similar to pigeons.

The Bald Eagles are Returning to the Valley

By |2024-02-06T05:28:09-07:00December 19th, 2011|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Portraits, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

During the summer months I don't often see Bald Eagles unless I go up into the high country or travel north of Utah to Idaho, Wyoming or Montana but in the Salt Lake Valley many Bald Eagles come in to spend the winter.

It has only been 4 days? Really?

By |2016-12-07T12:14:43-07:00May 19th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Clark's Grebes, Double-crested Cormorants, Jordan River Parkway Trail, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

For days it has been raining (sometimes hailing), cloudy and a miserable gray here in the Salt Lake Valley though it seems like two weeks to this bird photographer.

California Gulls – The 1848 Heroes of Utah’s Pioneers

By |2021-12-11T08:21:01-07:00April 26th, 2011|Categories: Birds, California Gulls, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Huge flocks of California Gulls allegedly descended onto the grasshoppers in the valley and made tasty meals of the insects thus preventing the total loss of the crops as the story is told.

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