I miss getting together with other birders. It's been a while for obvious reasons. It was nice to meet up with one of our birding friends when we had our two day date. We ran across another birder we knew looking for the same bird.
Utah County Birders have had less in person meetings and field trips the last couple years. It makes a difference when you have octogenarians in your club and want them to be safe. We've been having virtual meetings. Plans for field trips this year are mostly Saturday trips, not so much carpooling, and not too much crowding when we're outside. Jeremy and I took the opportunity to get out for a field trip to Burraston Ponds and Mona Reservoir recently. It was cold but worth it. I loved seeing more birding friends in person. There were approximately 14 vehicles and it was nice to see that quite a few of them had multiple people in them, spouses or families or close friends.
It also happened to be my brother's birthday the day Jeremy and I went out so we took the time to let him know we were thinking of him that day.
Before we headed on the field trip that day, we stopped by Thanksgiving Point and set up a balloon caveman at the Museum of Ancient Life for an event they had that day.
After the field trip was over, Jeremy and I stopped for lunch then headed to another spot to see some birds along the Provo River. 
We had a nice walk.
Going for a walk with the ducks.
Toward the beginning of our walk, Jeremy kept saying how he thought he heard brown creepers. We saw several other birds but didn't see brown creepers. However as we were walking back we heard the sounds again and Jeremy looked up and spotted a brown creeper. Then we spotted another brown creeper. So he was right, he recognized the sound and we got to see two.
It was a good birding day.
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