Utah spring sightings

4.09.13    The reward for paying a visit to the local reservoir at sunset was this brilliantly colored male Cinnamon teal that was keeping company with a pair of mallards.  These ducks summer in this area.  Today three Spotted Towhees scratched in the wood chips under the bird feeder and some shrubs in the back yard.  I spotted an American Kestrel zooming through at least 3-4 times; the Towhees avoided becoming lunch meat by never straying from the cover of the shrubs.   Yesterday the yard had a fresh cover of snow.