Antelope Island and the Grand Tetons : September 22-28, 2015

September 22 - KCDC - KOGD Aerial

Fall colors outside Cedar City	Cedar Breaks National Monument	cIMG_9953.JPG	cIMG_9959.JPG
Utah State Capitol	Antelope Island Marina

September 23 - Antelope Island

The midges were thick!	cIMG_0047.JPG	pIMG_0055.JPG	cIMG_0063.JPG
Sage Thrasher	Horned Lark	Northern Harrier	Loggerhead Shrike
cIMG_0089.JPG	Why did the chukars cross the road?	Chukar	Black-billed Magpie
pIMG_0101.JPG	Northern Shoveler eclipse male?	American Avocet	pIMG_0105.JPG
Ring-billed Gull	pIMG_0109.JPG	Western Pygmy Blue	The magpie was after an owl pellet
pIMG_0130.JPG	Say's Phoebe	cIMG_0133.JPG	Great Horned Owl
cIMG_0137.JPG	Eared Grebes	Red-naped Sapsucker	cIMG_0145.JPG
This owl is missing an eye :(	Preening	Townsend's Warbler	The owl's mate nearby
pIMG_0215.JPG	Western Meadowlark	cIMG_0230.JPG	cIMG_0237.JPG
Burrowing Owls	pIMG_0264.JPG	pIMG_0265.JPG	Egg Island Sunset
Looking east towards Farmington

September 24 - Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

Ring-necked Pheasant	pIMG_0339.JPG	pIMG_0343.JPG	Great Blue Heron
Marsh Wren	pIMG_0350.JPG	pIMG_0357.JPG	pIMG_0358.JPG
White-faced Ibis	cIMG_0375.JPG	pIMG_0376.JPG	Grebe chicks switch parents
pIMG_0385.JPG	pIMG_0386.JPG	pIMG_0391.JPG	Juvenile grebe
Muskrat	Redhead	Gadwall	pIMG_0416.JPG
pIMG_0419.JPG	Clark's Grebe	Pied-billed Grebe	pIMG_0430.JPG
pIMG_0438.JPG	Egrets squabble	pIMG_0444.JPG

September 24 - ATK Rocket Garden, Golden Spike National Historic Site, and Spiral Jetty

Minuteman Stage 1	cIMG_0468.JPG	cIMG_0484.JPG	pIMG_0493.JPG
cIMG_0519.JPG	pIMG_0525.JPG	Spiral Jetty	pIMG_0540.JPG
cIMG_0545.JPG	The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.	cIMG_0601.JPG

September 25 - Antelope Island

Avocets and stilts	Long-billed Curlew	Phaleropes?	pIMG_0644.JPG
Ruddy Duck	This buck was checking out another's harem	cIMG_0661.JPG	Getting chased off
cIMG_0677.JPG	cIMG_0681.JPG	cIMG_0687.JPG	cIMG_0705.JPG

September 26 - KOGD-KIDA Aerial

pIMG_0726.JPG	pIMG_0734.JPG	pIMG_0735.JPG	pIMG_0739.JPG
pIMG_0749.JPG	cIMG_0759.JPG	Spiral Jetty	cIMG_0782.JPG
cIMG_0789.JPG	pIMG_0792.JPG	pIMG_0795.JPG	cIMG_0797.JPG
pIMG_0798.JPG	Golden Spike NHS	ATK Rocket Garden	cIMG_0824.JPG
Tetons	cIMG_0851.JPG	cIMG_0856.JPG

September 26 - Driggs, ID

cIMG_0886.JPG	pIMG_0901.JPG	cIMG_0912.JPG	pIMG_0918.JPG
pIMG_0926.JPG	pIMG_0940.JPG	pIMG_0954.JPG	pIMG_0962.JPG
cIMG_0970.JPG	cIMG_0978.JPG	cIMG_0987.JPG	cIMG_0990.JPG
cIMG_1001.JPG	Looking NE towards Perseus

September 27 - Grand Teton National Park

Mountain Bluebird	cIMG_1044.JPG	This coyote was patrolling back and forth along the road.	pIMG_1058.JPG
It wasn't shy about all the cars and people around.	cIMG_1075.JPG	cIMG_1079.JPG	A high pounce!
cIMG_1082.JPG	cIMG_1083.JPG	cIMG_1084.JPG	cIMG_1086.JPG
cIMG_1087.JPG	cIMG_1088.JPG	cIMG_1089.JPG	cIMG_1101.JPG
cIMG_1104.JPG	pIMG_1123.JPG	pIMG_1126.JPG	cIMG_1138.JPG
pIMG_1145.JPG	cIMG_1147.JPG	pIMG_1154.JPG	cIMG_1159.JPG
pIMG_1174.JPG	Osprey	pIMG_1183.JPG	cIMG_1185.JPG
cIMG_1186.JPG	pIMG_1189.JPG	cIMG_1195.JPG	pIMG_1201.JPG
National Museum of Wildlife Art	Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads Ai Weiwei

September 27 - Driggs, ID

pIMG_1227.JPG	cIMG_1233.JPG	cIMG_1249.JPG	cIMG_1296.JPG
pIMG_1336.JPG

September 28 - Heading home...

Of course, it was perfectly clear the next morning!

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Great Salt Lake

There was a group of red-tailed hawks at 10000' on the flight home!