Birds

     This morning I went to get the paper and heard an owl hooting as I stepped out on the porch.  It flew over me as I was walking out. It was still fairly dark but I think it was a great horned owl and I think it was a mating call. It would be neat if they nested here.  That is the second owl I have seen this year (we saw one on a hike in Palm Springs)  I usually go decades between sightings so that was cool.
     Bryan and I drove down to the Farmington Bay Refuge to see the bald eagles wintering there.  We were hoping to see something like this:

that I saw on the utahbirds.org  website.  We only saw 3 and they were pretty far away.  Then I read in the newspaper that 3 is about the most anyone is seeing this year.  Most years there are around 100 but I guess the weird, warm winter has them staying up north.  Oh, well.  It was fun to drive all through the bay and check it out and it gives us something to plan on doing next year.