Showing posts with label lazuli bunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lazuli bunting. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Wildflowers #18 + Colorful visitors


lazuli bunting eating grass seeds

lupine / Lupinus argenteus

blue butterfly on yellow sweet clover

goat's beard and red poppy


Sibley's "Guide to Birds" lists the hooded oriole's range in Mexico, southern Arizona and southern California with a couple of visits up the Pacific coast. Absolutely nothing in Utah. Our visitor this morning puts the lie to that!


hooded oriole / Icterus cucullatus

sunset over utah valley

sunset over utah valley

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Wildflowers #12, Plus Birds


First penstemon is blooming this morning. A towhee and a blackheaded grosbeak and a lazuli bunting singing. A hummingbird on his favorite perch (between sittings for the photo he performed a death defying "J" for a lady friend).



blue penstemon, Penstemon cyan's


rufous-sided or spotted towhee

a better storks bill photo than i had in an earlier post

lazuli bunting, before i saw him i heard the pretty, quick, high-pitched song

goat's beard, western salsify, Tragopogon dubious
blackheaded grosbeak