Swan Day

Today was Swan Day at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge to celebrate the spring return of the swans.  We have never been here before, so we thought we would check it out.  We stopped at the Visitor Center first to see their exhibits and try a couple of their Swan Day activities.  Ciera made a quick bird nest and Camden wanted to watch me make an origami swan.  They really just wanted to go see the exhibits, so we didn't spend much time with the activities.

Once they finished walking through the exhibit, they were excited to go find some real birds.  We drove the Auto Tour Route and pulled over when we wanted to get out to view the birds with our binoculars.  We saw lots of swans, geese, ducks, coots, and of course seagulls.  We saw a couple of Blue Herons, a few pelicans, and lots of perching birds we couldn't identify.  We were told that March is the best month to spot a bald eagle, but we didn't see any.  We had to use binoculars to see most of the birds, which the kids loved to do.  The drive also gave them a good idea of what marshes look like.  Unfortunately, I don't have a good telephoto lens to take pictures of distant objects, so I don't have any good pictures of birds.  I did try to take a few landscape pictures of the area at least.