{"id":448160,"date":"2026-02-04T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448160\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:15:08","slug":"feeling-patriotic-nows-the-time-to-go-bald-eagle-watching-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448160\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling patriotic? Now’s the time to go bald eagle watching in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"

GUNNISON, Utah \u2014 Bald eagles, the noble and iconic symbol of freedom, are back in Utah during their annual migration season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s always a thrill when you see them, maybe off in the distance, and you can get your camera out and film them,” said photographer Scott Taylor. “I have a few that live in my neighborhood, and I can see them about anytime in the winter. I can go out and look at them.”<\/p>\n

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says February is typically the best time to see bald eagles in Utah as they come through looking for food and escaping colder conditions further north.<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re really iconic and really identifiable because of that large white head,” said DWR’s Faith Heaton Jolley. “They are large, and they\u2019ve got a pretty big wingspan up to 7 feet. Easily identifiable to see.”<\/p>\n

Now is prime time migration season for the national bird, and there are several places you can find them.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve kind of dubbed February as bald eagle month because it\u2019s just probably the best time to see them in Utah,” said Holley. “We do get a lot of bird watchers that come out and are excited and try to go to these key points.”<\/p>\n

The DWR put together a full list of the spots where they\u2019ve been spotted in the past, including:<\/p>\n

Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management AreaWeber River Green River Midview Reservoir Fountain Green State Fish Hatchery Wales Reservoir Sanpitch River Utah LakeProvo River DeltaHuntington State Park Colorado River, north of Moab<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s a good opportunity to see them,” added Jolley, “especially if you\u2019ve not seen them in the wild before. Just a really fun opportunity to go see this national bird.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GUNNISON, Utah \u2014 Bald eagles, the noble and iconic symbol of freedom, are back in Utah during their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,3324,201],"class_list":["post-448160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-utah","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}