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Traveling down the road from the Snowbird resort, Bruce Webb and I stopped when I heard a bird song I was unfamiliar with. Given that I’m a New Englander that is birding in Utah in late June, that’s not surprising, so there are a lot of “what was that song?” comments during the day.

In any case, the habitat was a sloping hillside with Aspens and a lot of brush. There were birds moving about through the branches, but mostly gving poor looks. Bruce whistled a Western Screech-Owl call, and up popped a Green-tailed Towhee! It looked around, didn’t see the “owl”, so it started singing from its new perch. Not the most photogenic look, but a decent ID photograph - you can even see the green tail!

**Clay’s Note - I have been so busy with work and an impending move to TX that I have not made any time to add any of my earlier 2008 photos to the site. The American Robin was taken back in January. Ugh.

So I’m going to jump ahead to the present day and post shots taken in late June in Utah. I’m at the Snowbird Resort near Alta, UT for the American Birding Association’s 2008 Convention. We will be here all week, so I’m going to (hopefully) post images as I take them.**