Some Utah leftovers while I’m traveling

My sister and I do plan on going out to look for wildlife one more time tomorrow morning, here in scenic Washington, Utah, but even if we find something amazing, I don’t know when I’ll have a chance to write it up, so here are a few more sights from Utah that I haven’t had room to show you yet.

I’ve been seeing Say’s phoebes all trip, but it wasn’t until we were just about to leave Bryce Canyon that this beauty finally let me have a nice picture.

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Now that I’ve seen my first lark sparrow, it seems the dam has been broken, and we’ve been seeing them everywhere. Here’s one across the road from the sage thrasher in Loa, Utah.

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Speaking of Loa, here’s another mountain bluebird in a slightly less natural setting.

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Here’s a colorful grasshopper, that I am currently unable to identify further, that my niece spotted in Arches National Park.

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Just because they look so amazing and they let me have some nice pictures, here’s another look at one of the common loons in Otter Creek Reservoir.

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Another bird that’s been showing up since the Grand Canyon is the Steller’s jay, but once again, I failed to get a nice picture until this one in Bryce Canyon.

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Finally, here’s a northern house wren in Zion National Park, whom I hope to see return to Estabrook Park soon.

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Lastly, your blossoms of the day are these gorgeous dark-throated shooting stars (Primula pauciflora) beside the Virgin River in Zion. Maybe our eastern shooting stars will be open by the time I get home.

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Published by Andrew Dressel

Theoretical and Applied Bicycle Mechanic, and now, apparently, Amateur Naturalist. In any case, my day job is researching bicycles at UWM.