birding, photography and living with pet birds
Posted in warbler on May 30th, 2010
The last day of the Great Salt Lake Bird Festival, Jon and I went on a 6am to 6pm birding trip of Deseret Ranch. This ranch is enormous. We took a bus that drove 200 miles on the ranch. It was amazing, I saw antelope, a moose, jackrabbits and a badger. For lunch we stopped [...]
Posted in dove on May 28th, 2010
Mourning Doves are very common in my neighborhood. I love their sad song and the little noises that they make when they fly. They’ve really gotten used to me. This guy is quite at home sitting inside a feeder meant for sparrows.
Posted in conservation on May 26th, 2010
Now that I have my first house, it’s time to start gardening. I know almost nothing about gardening, but I really like vegetables. I can’t wait to harvest tomatoes and zucchini from the garden. This is where the garden is going to go:
Posted in wren on May 23rd, 2010
This is the beginning of breeding season for Marsh Wrens. The males are search through the cattails and tules to find the perfect sport for a nest. They establish their territories by singing songs to alert the other males. During this time, if you can actually find the wrens in the reeds, they will usually [...]
Posted in blackbird, corvid, shorebirds on May 22nd, 2010
Last weekend Jon and I attended the Great Salt Lake Birding Festival. We’re still recovering. There were so many activities and so many birds. I even got to meet Birdchick, who is very nice and had excellent stories. Jon and I attended a tour of the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve, a behind the scenes [...]
Posted in cockatiel on May 20th, 2010
When we were looking for baby birds, I selected one breeder because she bred white-faced cockatiels. We visited the breeder’s home and the baby was not cuddly and was a little small but he was beautiful! I became concerned, though, after looking at the condition of all the cages. They were filthy. The breeder had [...]
Posted in tyrant flycatcher on May 15th, 2010
Back to pictures of southern Utah. Can you imagine living in wide open spaces that are surrounded by mountains? I colleague of mine said that when he moved from Salt Lake City to southern California, he felt trapped by all the buildings. The picture below was taken from a parking lot right off the highway.
Posted in cockatiel on May 12th, 2010
Trevor is slowly maturing into an adult cockatiel, but at night he still regresses a little. Do you know how children will cry so hard that they develop the hiccups? Trevor has the hiccups at night. It’s not quite a begging noise, but it’s a noise that only a baby would make. . A couple [...]
Salt Lake City has a lot of American Robins. Sitting here typing this with Trevor on my shoulder, I can see the robins flitting around in our backyard. Trevor is slightly alarmed.
Posted in gnatcatcher on May 8th, 2010
Last weekend Jon and I went to Las Vegas, NV to see Conan O’Brien perform at the Palms. Since Las Vegas is six and a half hours from Salt Lake City, we stayed in St. George, which is only four hours away.