Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

On our way to Idaho and stopped just north of Salt Lake City at the bird refuge to do the 36 mile auto audio tour. It is narrated by 7th and 8th graders from Perry, Utah and is a free download. This was back on July 28th. We saw many birds and it was well worth the detour. We had a picnic lunch along the way! The iPad does not take good pictures of birds from a distance which is why it took us so long to post this. Bridget went to the Bird Migratory Refuge website and copied and pasted pictures of birds we saw so the rest of this blog is her work :)))

Here are some website pictures of the birds we saw: This is a white-faced ibis -the bird that we saw most of after the American white pelican. This is the American white pelican. We saw 100's of these birds feeding on dying fish in the shallow waters. This is an example of one of the dying fish. We saw many dead fish in a big patch of dried up river bed. This is a white phased snowy egret. We did not see many of these birds, but they are very beautiful and I thought it would be nice to show you just how beautiful they are. This is a black-necked stilt. We saw some of these and many of them were babies. As you know, this is a bald eagle. We did not see any of these at the bird refuge but we did see them when we were on our white water rafting trip. We have seen 5 in total-in the Tetons, on the snake river and yesterday in Glacier Np.I had never thought that I would ever see any in my whole life! They really are amazing creatures.

We also saw cormorants, herons,gulls and ducks-plus nasty pesky biting flies. Once they discovered us we had to keep the windows closed in the camper. They were awful!! But we all really liked the refuge. It was beautiful and the birds have a happy home here when they decide to come!