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David Winegar, a Parkite and award-winning wildlife photographer, was near the Jordanelle Reservoir on May 16 at sunset when he spotted this osprey returning to its nest. Ospreys are big, Herculean and top anglers among birds, keeping themselves and their young fed almost exclusively with fish. They do stray now and then — some years ago, an osprey in Missoula, Montana hooked a whitetail deer fawn, flew with it down the Clark Fork river and then, perhaps tiring from such a burden, dropped it — onto a telephone line.

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David Winegar, a Parkite and award-winning wildlife photographer, was at Silver Springs Little Lake Tuesday when he saw a common loon, also known as a great northern diver, grabbing a bite to eat — a sizable cutthroat trout.

Winegar explains: “The Loon is a mythical bird that stops in Northern Utah during its spring migration to the northern U.S. and Canada. Loons mainly eat fish feeding in crystal clear lakes, where they can see underwater, and are superb swimmers with torpedo-like bodies designed to catch fish. Their calls are a haunting moaning or yodeling. Seeing this bird is rare, and a real treat to document.”

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