JUNE BIRDS, Clear Lake NWR, Utah, June 15th.

 Coot with chicks.

 Yellow-headed blackbird.

 Snowy egret with catch.

 Snowy egret.

 Long-billed curlew chick.

Long-billed curlew, alarm calling.

JUNE BIRDS, Clear Lake NWR, Utah, June 15.2015

 Cinnamon teal nest.

 Cinnamon teal.

 Wilson's phalarope.

 American avocet.

 Avocet chick.

Avocet on nest.

JUNE BIRDS, Clear Lake NWR, Utah, June 15.

 Black-crowned night heron.

 Black-necked stilt and chick.

Great blue.

JUNE BIRDS, Utah

 Horned lark, 6/11.

 Lazuli bunting, 6/11, Willow Spring Canyon, Wah Wah Mtns.

 Western tanager, 6/11, Pine Grove Canyon, Wah Wah Mtns.

 Prairie Falcon, 6/13.

 Ferruginous hawk, 6/13.

Loggerhead shrike, 6/14.

JUNE BIRDS, Utah

 Cliff swallows gathering mud for nests, 6/5.

 Barn swallow on nest under bridge, 6/5.

 Redtail hawk nestlings, 6/5.

 Burrowing owl near nest burrow, 6/9.

Burrowing owl near burrow, 6/13.

JUNE BIRDS, Utah, June 5th.

 Greater sage grouse, 6/5.

 Sage grouse chick.

 Osprey alarm calling.

 Pair with 2 chicks,

Sandhill crane with one chick.

More May highlights, Utah

 Juniper sculpture.

 Red crossbills, flegling being fed 5/ 20.

 Great Basin NP.

 Kit fox vixen and pup, 5/20.

 Vixen and pups.

Siblings, Snake Valley.

More May highlights, rocks, fossils, flowers.

 Fossil Mtn.

 Marine fossils.

 Whatizit?

 Evening primrose, a delicious scent filed the air.

Sandstone.

May highlights, Utah

 Chipping sparrow nest in Sagebrush, 5/30.

 Lazuli bunting, Willow Creek, 5/30.

 Horned Lizard taking in the sun.

Mountain bluebird with grasshopper.

May highlights, Utah. The vagaries of spring.

 Another storm in the Wah Wahs, 5/27.

 Yucca in full bloom, 5/28.

 Spadefoot toads emerge and reproduce in a stockpond.

 Already a 4-legged! 5/28.

Kiln Springs, charcoal kilns, and stock pond.