My goal of ticking off 100 species on the Bryce Canyon checklist within 6 months has come two steps closer. Yesterday on the way to the big city for some shopping I saw a flock of about 15 American Avocets flying around a pond just outside the park - number 93. Then today while taking Rox over to the lake for a swim I spotted a Prairie Falcon just outside the forest boundary. Ironically, we had a guest speaker for last night's evening program here at the park who is a wildlife rehabilitator as well as a falconer and one of the birds he brought to the program was a Prairie Falcon.

(Was just thinking that if I get 11 10 more I'll actually tick off 1/2 of the species on the entire list . . . maybe I should shoot for that instead.)

Update: Went down south in the park this afternoon for some more scenic images and heard an unfamiliar song. I thought it might be a wren so I went back to my truck, grabbed the binos and checked the field guide (the song I heard matched the description) and set about looking for what I thought it might be. Sure enough, number 95 was a Canyon Wren at the Natural Bridge overlook.