A Small Something

Rachel and I saw a Killdeer yesterday over by the pond. I’ve seen a few before near our house, but this was the first sighting this year. We also went for a walk and saw a dead muskrat, so I was relieved to see that the muskrat that normally hangs out in our wetlands was still there yesterday evening. The ducks have been pairing up over the last week or so and preparing nests.

Saturday morning I drove to Mona Reservoir and saw a couple hawks, a magpie, geese, mallards, and a bunch of American Coots.

Rachel and I enjoyed watching a Great Blue Heron through the binoculars on the far side of our neighbor’s pond yesterday afternoon for about twenty minutes before it flew to the north. It looked like it landed near some water about three blocks to the north. This is the fourth spring I’ve lived in this house, and haven’t seen a Great Blue Heron until now, so I was excited.

Yesterday morning we drove around the Provo Airport dike road looking for some Tundra Swans that had been seen there the previous day. We didn’t find them there. We did see an interesting sight though. Ice from the lake had been pushed up onto and above the dike road. Big slabs of ice, ten inches thick were piled very high (maybe 30 or 40 feet above the lake). Some combination of waves and wind had obviously been at work. I was impressed with the force that must have been necessary to create that mountain of ice.