{"id":26725,"date":"2015-07-16T05:48:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=26725"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:13:53","slug":"sky-line-drive-and-wasatch-mountain-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/07\/16\/sky-line-drive-and-wasatch-mountain-journeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Line Drive and Wasatch Mountain Journeys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FemaleFemale Dusky Grouse walking across Sky Line Drive<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been thinking a lot about Sky Line Drive this week which includes Bountiful and Farmington Canyons and the Uinta Wasatch Cache National Forest so I thought I’d share a few bird and critter images taken up there today.<\/p>\n

The first is a female Dusky Grouse that crossed the gravel road on the way up. Dusky Grouse are upland game birds and I have seen them a few times going up the canyons and one time a male all the way at the top. You can’t get much more upland than that in Davis County!<\/p>\n

\"Green-tailedGreen-tailed Towhee singing in the Wasatch National Forest<\/span><\/p>\n

Green-tailed Towhees can be found singing on their territories in July and with their rufous crowns raised it is easy to identify them visually. I usually hear them before I see them.<\/p>\n

\"MooseMoose calf running through an alpine meadow<\/span><\/p>\n

I like to try to find Moose on the eastern side of the mountains and I always feel very lucky when I can photograph a Moose calf like this one running across an alpine meadow.<\/p>\n

I might need to go wandering up the canyons and Sky Line Drive soon just to see what birds and creatures I can find.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my bird photos and here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my mammal images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I might need to go wandering up the canyons and Sky Line Drive soon just to see what birds and creatures I can find. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,1022,1424,2212,316,1834,3886,26,773],"tags":[4425,3904,4426,195,4442,4358,4357,4070,6790,3905,3492,4037,4069,2303,2326,6698,4179,4018,855,4195,5908,4854,401,102,4032],"class_list":["post-26725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-dusky-grouse","category-green-tailed-towhees","category-moose","category-sky-line-drive","category-uinta-national-forest","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","tag-alces-alces","tag-alpine-meadow","tag-calf","tag-canyons","tag-cow","tag-dendragapus-obscurus","tag-dusky-grouse","tag-female","tag-gravel","tag-green-tailed-towhee","tag-grouse","tag-moose","tag-mountains","tag-pipilo-chlorurus","tag-road","tag-serviceberry","tag-singing-2","tag-sky","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-towhee","tag-towhees","tag-upland-game-birds","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t