[Birdnet] Uintah Basin news

[Clay Johnson]

Hi All,


Things are slow out here.we got a bunch of snow, and temperatures have been
dropping to around zero every night, rising to nearly 20 during the days,
and not a lot of sunshine.

 

My son and I went over to Ouray Saturday.we saw lots of porcupines, a scrub
jay, a bald eagle, red tailed hawks, 7 robins, white-crowned sparrows, a
spotted towhee, red winged blackbirds, northern flickers, pheasants,
antelope, a frustratingly brief glimpse of some relatively light colored big
owl.and two nearly stuck Toyotas, one of which was our own.  If you go to
Ouray, don't assume that the plowed, flat, road-like expanse is congruent
with the underlying road; it isn't.

 

This morning I ran over to the Dinosaur National Monument Quarry and Split
Mountain for a few minutes, seeing only red tailed hawks and Canada geese
along the river.  I took one long-range photo of "goose-ends".three geese in
a row.  In the photo, you can see that the center goose (which appears
slightly larger than the other two) has a white forehead and more extensive
white on the cheeks/head than is typical.  I assume this is just a Canada
variant, rather than a hybrid.  I sent a pic to Milt.

 

Happy Holidays!

 

Clay

             

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