Sunday, June 6, 2010

Bird watching

Ethan has this obsession with birds. He will watch for them everywhere and scream "bird!" like a broken record until you repeat "bird!" back to him. Because of this obsession, Mart has taken to bird watching while in our backyard.

Normally all we can see in our backyard are the average Utah birds that you always see around here. Orange stomachs black backs and wings. This year, we have seen quite a few really bright pretty yellow birds. At first we wondered if they had escaped from somewhere, but we've seen quite a few of them and in a few other cities as well. We are now thinking that maybe we got lucky when the birds migrated back to the valley and we got some really pretty ones in the mix this year.

While watching them yesterday, Mart decided to take pictures of the yellow birds.

This one turned out pretty good, thanks to my super zoom lens!

2 comments:

Suzanne said...

Lisa and I were talking about these birds just yesterday...we see thme here too.

Sarah said...

Oh! These birds were featured in the paper this last week. They are new to the region supposedly. And there are so many of them that they say that they'll turn into a regular in Cache Valley. They're so pretty!