After several days, I finally narrowed the thousands of pictures Leslie and I took at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge over two days to just 520 photos. Of course the hardest part is still ahead because I’m not about to post that many photos on my site. Even more of a problem for me is how I want to organize them. Sometimes I post Leslie’s photos first and mine later, but we actually shot a lot of the same shots. I also seriously thought about sorting them by species, but there are a lot more shots of Grebes than anything else, and I didn’t want to slight striking birds like this Yellow-headed Blackbird,
these White Pelicans,
this baby American Coot,
this mother Coot,
this male Ruddy Duck,
or this Western Grebe.
Remarkably, all of these shots were taken by me in the first third of the Auto Route while Leslie was even busier taking photos of different birds from her side of the car.
Although the highlight of this visit had to be Grebes and their babies, much of the appeal of this place is the amazing variety of birds found here throughout the year.
Awesome! I’ve never seen white pelicans, but I still remember my first ruddy duck and that surprising blue bill.
What a diverse refuge! The pictures of the White Pelicans and the baby American Coot are striking.