is now open for residents this breeding season despite the COVID-19 lockdown in Grand County, visited this morning near milepost 9 on SR 128 between Moab and Castle Valley, Utah. There are about a half-dozen stick nests built by Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) over the decades right across the river from a small pullout.
This is likely the female on the stick nest in a grove of Gambel oak trees.
This is likely the male, caught fishing on a gravel bar, just a short distance downstream below the nest.