Utah Early Wildflowers

[leanin' H]

I took a ride on my wheeler tonight looking for a turkey as I have a tag that started today. Not a turkey track or any sign of a turkey at all! But I found lots of spring flowers and a bunch of deer. Looking East from the head of Government creek.

Wild peavine on the top of the ridge. (Lathyrus Pauciflouris)

A little blue bell tucked up under an old cedar tree.(Mertensia ciliata)

We don't get the carpet of BlueBonnets like you Texans. But we do have lots of spring glacier lillys under the mountain oakbrush. (Erythronium grandiflorum)

Glacier lillys again.

A close-up of Erythronium grandiflorum. 8)

We call these Indian Paintbrush but the proper name is Desert Paintbrush. (Castilleja chromosa) They are my favorite flower along with Larkspur. Probably because they were my Grandma's favorites!

These are pretty but their name doesn't match........ Rough Mule's ear? :???: (Wyethia scabra)

And a little bunch of Cushion Phlox. (Phlox Hoodi)

And i found quite a few small bunches of deer. (muledeerius bighornyheads) These are all bucks with velvet covered antlers just getting started. From far........

And a little closer thanks to zoom! No turkeys except the one taking these pictures! I only know the scientific names of flowers thanks to google! :wink:

 

[Triangle Bar]

I was starting to be impressed with your latin....and then you went and blew it with Hunter H's desert slang. :mrgreen: Great photos! Good luck with findin' a turkey.

 

[Yanuck]

did you pick your wife a bouquet?

 

[leanin' H]

did you pick your wife a bouquet?

I tried to, but the bucks all ran off before I could!

 

[Yanuck]

did you pick your wife a bouquet?

I tried to, but the bucks all ran off before I could!

ooooohhhhhh 'H, thats just bad!!!!! :roll:

 

[leanin' H]

I brought my sweet wife a bouquet of pictures of flowers since to actually pick them would destroy an important part of this fragile desert landscape! And we all know how "green" I am! :roll: Al Gore would be proud of me! :shock: I'll be right back....... I gotta go turn on a bunch of lights, chase my cows around til they fart a bunch and pull some flowers out by the roots! :lol: Whew! That was close!

 

[Nicky]

Thanks for the pics! Can't believe your paintbrush is already out, ours comes on much later. Don't be trying to start something with the scientific (see I can't even spell that :???: ) names...I'm lucky to get the pictures on!

 

[gcreekrch]

Beautiful country H, and you are artist enough to capture it.

Why don't you take your tame tom along for a decoy and stake him out?
If you get desperate you can always shoot him.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Here's a picture of our Indian Paintbrushes.....they grow scatter thru the bluebonnets. I think I've only seen one field that was all paintbrushes......and "someone" wouldn't stop so I could take a picture :roll:

 

[Jassy]

Isn't "hunting" for flowers more fun than turkeys? lol Thanks for posting some positive signs of spring!

 

[MoFescue]

H, those are some nice pics , keep us informed during the turkey hunt. Do you have to draw tags or are they over the counter, i know a nonresident hunter that is wondering, like me. Do you find many sheds this time of the year? My little hunter proved that his first turkey was not a lucky shot, sunday i called in a longbeard for him and he shot another one he is done, tagged out his first year.

 

[leanin' H]

H, those are some nice pics , keep us informed during the turkey hunt. Do you have to draw tags or are they over the counter, i know a nonresident hunter that is wondering, like me. Do you find many sheds this time of the year? My little hunter proved that his first turkey was not a lucky shot, sunday i called in a longbeard for him and he shot another one he is done, tagged out his first year.

Tell the boy I said congrats! We have to draw tags right now but turkeys are really exploding population wise and in the near future we should get to buy them every year. I have a bunch of sheds and have found some this year. Look in the sports catagory and i posted some pictures a while back. I will keep ya informed on my hunt as i get after it! :wink:

 

[burnt]

Here in Southern Ontario we are becoming overrun with turkeys after they were re-introduced about 20 -25 years ago. We can now buy a second tag for toms when the first tag is filled. There is soon going to be a fall hunt as well.

I found the remains of one in the round bale feeder this winter - it looked like one hen didn't get her eggs hatched out in time last summer and ended up in a bale of hay.

 

[TexasBred]

Here's a picture of our Indian Paintbrushes.....they grow scatter thru the bluebonnets. I think I've only seen one field that was all paintbrushes......and "someone" wouldn't stop so I could take a picture :roll:

Lilly we sometimes have pretty good patches of paintbrushes up here without the bluebonnets....the indian blankets are on their way now as well as the mexican hats.......love the flower pics tho regardless of where they're located.