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Looking Back On Photographing A Rare Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk

By |2023-05-05T10:10:15-05:00November 16th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Leucistic, Rarities, Red-tailed Hawks, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Even though it is now four years later I still look for this striking leucistic Red-tailed Hawk in Tooele County and hope to find and photograph it again one day.

Warbling Vireo And Fall Colors In The Stansbury Mountains

By |2024-03-29T14:36:57-05:00September 22nd, 2020|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, Warbling Vireos, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

When this Warbling Vireo popped into my view I knew if I wanted to photograph it I had to hurry because these small vireos move fast.

West Desert Wandering – Birds, Bees, And Blooms

By |2021-02-20T09:27:54-06:00October 5th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Dark-eyed Juncos, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Even though I came home with very few photos I'm still glad I went wandering. I had great views, sunshine, birds to delight my eyes and ears and I soaked it all up like a thirsty sponge.

Killdeer Nesting In Last Year’s Ashes

By |2024-03-18T18:55:55-05:00June 24th, 2019|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Killdeer, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Both the female and male Killdeer incubate so there is no way for me to tell what the gender of this Killdeer is but it stayed on the scrape while I photographed it and didn't move.

Great Horned Owl and fledgling strongly backlit by the setting sun

By |2024-03-04T16:51:46-06:00March 16th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Florida, Great Horned Owls, Honeymoon Island State Park, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

What can I say about this image of an adult Great Horned Owl feeding its young that is strongly back lit by the setting sun on Honeymoon Island State Park in Florida?

Northern Shovelers blasting off

By |2024-03-28T05:00:48-05:00February 11th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Northern Shovelers, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This morning when we had almost reached Antelope Island I spotted a huge flock of Northern Shovelers blasting off from the water

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