Bear River National Migratory Bird Refuge
May 31, 2007.
We moved the motorhome 32-miles north, on I-15, to
Brigham City, UT (the gateway to Bear
River National Migratory Bird Refuge). We dropped the motorhome at a Super
Wal Mart located at exit 364 and headed to Bear
River Migratory Bird Refuge 20-miles west of Brigham City.
To find
Bear River NMBR take
I-15 exit 366 then follow Bird Refuge Road west to the NMBR.
Keep
in mind that this is Part-1 of our 3-part series covering Bear
River National Migratory Bird Refuge near Brigham City, Utah. The others
in this series are here:
Bear River NMBR-1
** Bear River NMBR-2 ** Bear
River NMBR-3
Brigham City, Utah
This
was one of the few streets we have seen in our travels lined with sycamore trees.
These sycamore trees made a beautiful canopy along one of the main streets in
Brigham City.
Brigham City, Utah
This large sign in downtown Brigham City proclaims
that they are the "Gateway to the Worlds Greatest Game Bird Refuge".
We were on our way to check out Bear
River Migratory Bird Refuge 20-miles west of town and would soon have
an opinion on that claim.
Before arriving at the
refuge we were surprised to spot this eastern kingbird.
We spotted these long-billed curlews along with
about 20 others. They were all about the same distance from this barbed wire fence.
Each were facing the road where we were. None of them flew while we watched them
and took their pictures. We decided that these were probably male long-billed
curlews standing guard near their mate that was probably on a nest where we could
not see them. Each of the curlews we saw were about 50-feet apart almost in a
row. Except for the 20 or so we saw along this road, that was outside the bird
refuge, we did not see any others.
We
were looking for long-billed curlews yesterday when we visited Antelope
Island yesterday but did not see any.
High quality grasslands like
this provide ideal nesting habitat for curlews.
Every
structure that we see has hundreds of cliff swallows nesting under the eves. There
were thousands of these cliff swallows throughout Bear
River Migratory Bird Refuge.
Cliff
swallow nests under those shelters.
Western
greebe like this one were prevalent throughout the refuge. We saw hundreds if
not thousands of western greebe throughout the refuge.
Keep in mind that
this is Part-1 of our 3-part series covering Bear
River National Migratory Bird Refuge near Brigham City, Utah. The others
in this series are here:
Bear River NMBR-1
** Bear River NMBR-2 ** Bear
River NMBR-3
Until next time remember how good
life is.
Mike
& Joyce Hendrix
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