Of course, we saw more birds than Grouse and Ptarmigan. In fact, I added 11 life birds on the trip. Todd got 4 which is good for him. We found iconic western species including 100+ Western Meadowlarks singing their R2D2 songs.
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Western Meadowlark |
And beautiful Stellar's Jays in the mountains.
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Stellar's Jay |
We found this Yellow-headed Blackbird in the marsh.
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Yellow-headed Blackbird |
And this little Rock Wren.
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Rock Wren |
On the lake, we saw 100+ American White Pelicans. They are pretty easy to spot but not usually close enough for a photo like this.
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American White Pelican |
Here is one of the life birds for me. McCown's Longspur which is a tiny sparrow-like bird that runs around in the grass. Very difficult to spot unless it runs across the dirt road like this one did.
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McCown's Longspur |
It is always a joy to find Rough-legged Hawks. This one perched on a fence post.
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Roughie |
Of course, there were other critters too. We were surprised to spot this Red Fox wandering along the side of the mountain road. Look at the long fur - alot different than the foxes in our yard.
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Red Fox |
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Furry Fox |
It is the big game that was really cool. Like these Bighorn Sheep.
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Bighorn Sheep |
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Chewing on Grass |
And the Pronghorn too. These were the animals that I really wanted to see. We saw a few that were very far away or close but then bolted when they saw us (Pronghorn are the fastest animal in North America) but these 2 didn't seem to mind our cameras snapping photos.
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Pronghorn |
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Pronghorn |
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Superb!!! HH
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