deer creek

we went to deer creek res. to catch some trout, only caught on trout and that was it for trout, we also went for perch with a worm caught at least 40, one was 13 inches! that is 2 inches under the utah state record!!!!!!!!!!! utah state record perch is 15 and a half inches long!!!!!!!!!! here are the pics.

fishin'

so lately, I have been in to fishing like crazy! we go every Saturday and go to Utah lake to catch some catfish, we also went to strawberry once for some trout, my dad's friends are all planing to catch the Utah record so we'll see how that go's.
any way, here are some pics:

this is a three generation picture of my cousin

my uncle catching a cutthroat

my dad holding up a huge catfish that I caught

my dad holding up my catfish again

my friend holding one of the three cats that he caught

at strawberry with a rainbow

a different rainbow

sorry

hi, McKay here, sorry it has taken me such a long time to get back to blogging, I had someone request for me to start blogging some more and here I am. I will start blogging regularly again!

new fishing record!

the other day I caught my new biggest fish in my life weighing in at 30 pounds!! it was a grass carp so I had to let it go. I have lately been in to fishing a lot and am more interested in them them birds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its true!!!!!! I am keeping track of all the fish I have caught and this is the following:

northern pike, 9 pound
grass carp, 30 pound
blue gill, half pound
rock bass, 1 pound
sunfish, half pound
largemouth bass, 2 pound
white bass, 1 pound
mudcat(bullhead), 3 pound

if you do NOT know what these are then look them up on google.

minnesota!!!

we went on vacation to Minnesota!!! so exciting! we got back last week on Friday, and had a very fun time! we went fishing( which was my favorite part) we caught a lot of fish including: bluegill, sunfish, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, rock bass and northern pike. if you don't know what these are, look them up on google. i also saw a lot of birds including exactly 75 more birds that aren't on my life list!

105 post!!

this post that i am posting right now, is my 105th post! It has taken me 9 months to do that! I am glad I have done that much and am happy to continue posting!

baseball

I have not told you that I follow baseball, I am on the city league team, I am on the ST. louis cardinals! So far we have played 7 games, and are tied with another team for second place. Last week we were tied for first place but then we lost a game on thursday. We play 13 games in a season, and so far, I think our team is good enough to make it in to tournaments.

Baseball is now my favorite sport(again for the third time), I keep swithing what my favorite sport is, but I think that baseball is going to stay my favorite now.

I took teeball twice when i was 4 and 6, I took soccer when I was5 and 7, and I took mustang league baseball when I was 9, and now I take pinto league baseball at the age of 11. That is a lot of sports! it has been hard for my mom to come to all my baseball games(2 a week) but I am very greatful to her fore allways supporting me. Thanks mom. Well that is all for now.

robin nest !

(First i must say that we did take pictures but the computer freezes when we try to upload pictures, so there are no pictures.)

So we built a platform birdhouse, it is just a 5" deep platform, 7" long, with walls, and no roof.
We attached it under the roof overhang to the part of the rain gutter where it carries the water to the ground. Before I say anything else, I must say that there was already a robin nest there before we put the platform there, so that is half the reason they found it. So about 3-4 days later, a pair of robins started to put nesting material in the platform. there are now five eggs in the nest, and the female has started to incubate the eggs. I am excited to see what happens.

the best place to put it would be under your house over hang, so it does not need a roof, if you are putting it in a tree you will need a platform with a roof

new bird list

today, I went to a farm which had a pond back behind it, here is a list of all the birds I saw today:

black necked stilt,
American avocet,
brown headed cowbird,
barn swallow,
Cinnamon teal,
green winged teal,
great blue heron. and that is it, which puts my list at:112! I am hoping to see all most all of the bird species in Utah!

first day of moving, too today

so, on this post, I am going to explain from day one too today, all the birds that I have seen.

OK, so the first day that we moved here, I did not have bird seed out, so I just watched all the robins and what they were doing, but the next morning, I found out that my dad had put bird seed out (I could tell because of all the birds that were there) so we went to our old house to clean up the yard, and that took all day. so the next morning(I had already put the bird feeders up) I watched pine siskins, American goldfinches, and house finches find the feeders all day. the next morning, I went to the birding window, and guess what I saw! red crossbills!!! (if you don't know what that is then just see my last post and click on the bird links) later that day a red winged blackbird visited my feeder!! I am hoping that it will come back. since then i have just been having the normal house finches and goldfinches visiting my feeder.

but yesterday!! I saw the years first black chinned hummingbird!!!!!!!! just can't wait for summer!!

moved, and all the thousands of birds around the new house

so first, we moved in to a new house, the first night I was in the new house, I saw over a hundred of robins, they were all over the place. the next day I noticed that my dad had put bird seed out, thanks dad! because of that there have been a bunch of birds, I will name all the birds that I have seen around the new house and give a short story about it.

american goldfinch,
house finch,
junco,
red crossbill,
red winged blackbird,
house sparrow,
starling,
Eurasian colored dove,
morning dove.

this is a bird heaven for me!

robins every where

this morning, I saw a lot of robins! every where I looked, I saw robins! most people I know say that robins migrate and go to Mexico for the winter, but I know that is not true. in fact, I see more robins in the winter then I do in the summer. it is because robins are in HUGE groups in the winter and spread out in the summer! this is because they protect there nesting territory, and do not let any other robins around it. so it seems like there are more robins in the winter then in the summer because of that.

new monthly poll

I have a new poll, it is, what is your favorite color? that is my sisters idea :) but I could not think of anything else, so I went with it.

finches are every were!

Today, at my feeders, there have been way more finches then normal, such as:

house finches,
pine siskens
and even goldfinches!!

the thing about it is is that there were tons of them every were, I don't know why, I guess it was just a good day for finches.

new bird list

I have seen two more!!! birds that are not on my life list! slate colored junco, and gray headed junco!

bird update

lately, I have been watching birds a lot because of the snow storm. birds have been everywhere, I have seen all the winter feeding birds that have lately been coming to my feeder.

about life: life has been going well, we are completely ready to move but are just waiting to hear if we can move, we are having some people coming to help us move on Tuesday. so we'll see how it goes. right now I have been challenged to see who can do the biggest blog the fastest!

the person who challenged me to do this is my cousin Hilary, she has a blog at: hilarysawsomeblog.blogspot.com

Tree Frog

bluebird listing

today, I saw a mountain bluebird around our house, it is not on my life list so that will make my life list 99!!!!!!!!!!!!

snow storm :(

in spanish fork, we had a huge snow storm :( I do not like snow storms :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( but goooooooood for birds

2 more birds that aren't on my life list

lesser white fronted goose and Chinese goose. I went to a farm and walked all around the farm! there were lesser white fronted geese there, and Chinese geese. lesser white fronted geese are very rare, the geese were domesticated. also, I found their nest and there were a bunch of eggs!!! well anyway, I had fun.

that makes my life list 98!!!

hering gull

today, when I was birding, it was pretty normal, 200 pine siskens, house finches, doves, all that, when I saw a Herring gull which is not on my life list yet. I can tell it is a Herring gull, because it looks just like a California gull(or sea gull) just much bigger. a california gull is around 22 inches, a Herring gull is around 25 to 26 inches, in a bird, inches make a huge difference. the hering gull makes my life list 96!!

life list of birds

on the side bar, I have my life list of birds. just so you know I am still adding do it as I see birds!

drum lessons

drum lessons have been going well.

first Morning Dove of the year

This morning, I saw the first Mourning Dove of the year. Doves don't migrate but for some reason, they go some were else and then come back in the spring.

painted house

yesterday, we painted our apartment, it was fun.

I will have some pictures later.

100+ pine siskens

today, when I went out side, I about fell backwards on the ground! so this is what happened, so I go out side to watch birds, but before I go out there, there are over 100 pine sisken and other birds on the ground right outside our back door! so I go out there and all the birds fly off the ground witch is so surprising that I almost fell on my back! and when I got out there, I had to hold my ears, if you know what sound pine siskens make, then you can imagine what it's like with over hundred of them.
for some information about pine siskens, click here, and here this one tells what sound it makes, and here. pine siskens are cool birds!

no more male juncos

first, let me explain what juncos are, they are birds with black heads and brown wings and white underparts, the thing is they migrate north for the summer(they are here in winter but up north for summer) OK, now that you know a little bit about juncos, I'll explain the story.

so today, when I was watching birds, I noticed that there were no male juncos(you can tell if there males, if they have a much darker head) you are probably wondering why? well, they actually migrate before the females, to set up a territory! pretty cool huh! juncos are pretty cool birds!


to learn more about juncos, click here

nesting in our yard!!

today, I found out that there are some starling that are nesting in a crack in between our porch roof and our house roof, (that tells how old this house is) they did the same thing last year, it is all ways fun (no matter what bird it is) to watch them nest. There are a lot of people that think starlings are pests, but I think all birds should be able to nest, and are fun.

I encourage you to build or buy a bird house and put it up, not just to help the bird, but to be something fun for you to watch! it is very fun, I promise you.

the best place to put a bird house is in trees where you see the birds most often, don't get worried if the birds have a Lot of competition, because they will, if there is to much, then just put up another bird house! trees, bushes, fences with bushes around it, these are all good places to put up a bird house. if you don't know how big a bird house should be, then buy a birdhouse book to help, or just by a birdhouse, I would get the book, because then you can build birdhouses whenever you want, I recommend the stokes birdhouse book, click here. well... just an encouragement to get some bird houses up!

birds are everywhere

today, I woke up early to fill up the feeders and noticed that there where birds every were!! so I filled up the feeders and put some cracked walnuts on the ground, then I went inside and noticed that I had forgotten to put some ground seed out on the ground, so I got the bag of bird seed and I had also noticed that there was a group of pine siskens at my feeders, so I got a hand full of seed and was about to through it when a pine sisken landed right on my hand and started eating the birdseed out of my hand!!!

I also saw
flickers,
finches,
house and junco sparrows,
blue gray warblers,
starlings,
robins,
California gulls,
Eurasian colored doves,
morning doves,
and downy woodpeckers.

anyway, today has been a great day for birding!

new poll!

I have a new pole!(again and again) please vote!

updates on oliver

Oliver is geting big! he is now very interested in toys, we will put him in his swing and give him some toys such as balls and rings, and he will go crazy over them and is constantly in the mode to play.

drum lessens!

Today, I had my first drum lessen! It is so much fun! I learned the basic drum beat and my teacher said I was doing very good for it being my first lessen. I am hoping to get my own set of drums soon!

vote! (again)

Once again, I have another voting poll! Vote on your favorite instrument.

vote!

On the side bar, I have a voting poll. Please vote! on your favorite bird.

filling up the feeders

this week I finally filled up the feeders, the next day birds were every where! no pictures because our camera will not zoom in, the lenses are broken so I will not have any pictures Intel we get a new camera. I have seen thousands of Canada geese, they have started to migrate already! early.

any body who reads this blog, I am asking you to comment on your favorite bird, me, probably red tailed hawk.

long time no... blog

We had Internet disconnected for a month or two, so I have not blogged in awhile. First, how was Christmas? How was New Years? Please comment. I have not seen any birds at the feeder for awhile. My cousin and I had a challenge (again) to see who could see the most birds in a week. It was fun. The score was, 48(me) to 32(my cousin) yea... I win! Anyway it was all fun. In the summer, we're planning on doing the same challenge, except with reptiles instead of birds. For Christmas, I got a Nerf gun, a flint and steel, the game Risk, two flash lights, and a whole lot of candy! For New Years, we stayed home and watched three movies, and of course ate food. Well... that's all that the Olson family did.