The Bird Man

Hopefully we’ll stay a while and will have new neighbors in the empty place a few doors over.  He saw my photos today and confirmed that I got a rare blurry photo (because I was taking it inside through a dirty window and looking for the bill for identification).  Sometimes shopkeepers look at identification for the bill but I was looking at the bill of a bird at the time.

So now they won’t let me see the photos before I preview or post this, like it’s wasting paper.  OK, I’ll have to say that there’s a woodcock, which is not rare but rarely photographable as you can see from this shot.  Also two glossy ibis, which a birder emailed me to say never come to Utah.  They do.  The photos I saw were from Utah and these were taken outside our home.  The Bird Man confirmed it.  Otherwise we have the Greater Sandhill Cranes, two were here for a couple of days but I didn’t see or hear them today so they may have headed north.

What photos I take of area wildlife don’t compare in any way to looking at them in person, and for the birds in the preserve, using binoculars. What a beautiful country we live in.  I see the land here, look at my new guitar, and right now it’s telling me “This Land Is Your Land…” and if we protect it by saving our environment, it will be in the future.  Hey, I’ve yet to cook from my organic surprise package.  Too busy with emails etc.  Keep on cooking.  Dee

PS The middle photo is a fully-grown marmot (prairie dog) next door.