Stayed a few days at a Dixie National Forest Campground at Duck Creek. It’s along another scenic route, Highway 14, in Utah, 28 miles from Cedar City and 8,600 feet in elevation. Found it good for bird watching.
Above, a black-eyed junco subspecie. It hopped up to me while I was sitting outside as the sun was going down.
Northern flicker
A black-capped chickadee by a pine cone that a squirrel had knocked off a spruce tree that morning.
Got so many stellar jay pictures, it was hard to choose which one to show.
At times there were 6-12 least chipmunks (top picture) around my campsite. They have a nervous run and stop action. They would often stop and look at me, as if they were trying to see if I were a friend or foe. Most of the time I’d stamp my feet and shoo them away. They are so small, I was afraid they would try and get into my trailer. There was only one of the squirrels shown in the second picture. It was the one who knocked the pine cones down from the trees in the morning. It also jumped and held onto the middle of my screen door several times, I think when it smelled food.
Drove into Cedar City one day to get supplies from their Walmart. On the way, came across a huge number of sheep coming over a hill and crossing the highway. There was no sheepherder or dogs in sight. Tourists, like me, stopped to watch. Locals slowly drove through the sheep to continue on their business. After around 20 minutes, a sheepherder on a horse and his two dogs appeared and directed the sheep back across the highway and over the hill.
Below, Navajo Lake around 5 miles from Duck Creek. Utah also has trees dying from beetle damage.
