Spring (what there was of it) is ending. Migration winding down. Today we ventured out and ended up seeing a new life bird, a Long-eared Owl. This is the sixth owl species we've seen on Antelope Island (others were: Great Horned, Barn, Short-eared, Burrowing and Northern Saw-whet owls). 

The cold, wet Spring kept birds around our yard, so we were able to see several Western Tanagers and a great afternoon watching a couple of baby Lesser Goldfinches and their mother. Lazuli Buntings are everywhere and I can't resist taking hundreds of pictures. Even when they are just first-years with messy plumage,they're still so striking. When we finally got some warm weather the Barn Swallows all laid out to catch some sun. It looked like a day at the beach. At first I thought they were a bunch of dead birds, but they are just lazing away in the sun.

Cutest bird of Spring 2011 has to go to the baby Killdeer we spotted running around on the side of a road.