One of the best places to observe birds along northern Utah’s urbanized Wasatch Front is tucked between tennis courts, ballfields, residential neighborhoods and a busy freeway where scrub oak gives way to open ground and wooded ravines.
During a recent visit to Olympus Hills Park, birder Kenny Frisch explained why it is no surprise that 90 species have been recorded at the park located at the top of 4500 South in Holladay.
Such “edge habitat” invites not just large numbers of birds but also a variety because it supports birds that come to nest, forage and pass through on migration, said Frisch, who works as a horticulturalist for the University of Utah campus.