Some Recent Urban Pond Birds In the last three days I’ve visited three urban ponds in the Salt Lake Valley while looking for birds. (6 photos of 6 species) Continue reading
Great Egret – A Strike And A Miss This is the Great Egret that’s been hanging around the Bear River east of Bear River MBR for some time now. (2 photos) Continue reading
A Great Egret, A Great Blue Heron And A Serious Territorial Dispute With birds you just never know what might happen. (12 photos) Continue reading
American Coots – Still A Family And Still Hanging Out On The Same Old Grebe Nest Birds are endlessly interesting. (7 photos) Continue reading
Black-crowned Night Heron On An Unusual Perch For The Species My “gadget” saves my bacon. (3 photos) Continue reading
Two Cormorants And A Pelican – A Near Head-on Collision In Flight If there’s a possibility you’re going to collide head-on with another bird in flight, you don’t want it to be with a 16 lb. pelican. (4 photos) Continue reading
Great Blue Heron – Old Stoneface Too much “cooperative” can be the same as uncooperative. (3 photos) Continue reading
A Couple Of Immature Black-crowned Night Herons In Flight Yesterday was a night heron kind of day. (2 photos) Continue reading
Black-necked Stilt Attacking A Great Blue Heron An avian version of David and Goliath. With a similar result because the little guy came out on top. (8 photos) Continue reading
Black-crowned Night Heron Walking Rapidly Toward A Confrontation Plus an update on the Bandito/Slinky wars. (4 photos) Continue reading
Comparing A Great Egret To A Great Blue Heron In the same photo, in identical hunting poses. Continue reading