Yearly Archives: 2021

Pileated Woodpecker – The 2021 ABA Bird of The Year

By Mia McPherson|January 5th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Hillsborough County, Lettuce Lake Regional Park, Pileated Woodpeckers, Pinellas County|Tags: ABA Bird of the Year, adult, American Birding Association, Australian Pines, branch, Dryocopus pileatus, female, male, perched, Pileated Woodpecker, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

The American Birding Association has selected the Pileated Woodpecker as their Bird of the Year for 2021 and I think it is an excellent choice.

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First Winter Red-tailed Hawk Lift Off Photos

By Mia McPherson|January 4th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: bird of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, first, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, juvenile, lift off, lifting off, marsh, metal post, raptors, red tail, Red-tailed Hawk, take off, taking off, Utah, winter, young|

Last month I spent twenty-eight lovely minutes photographing this first winter Red-tailed Hawk in the marsh at Farmington Bay WMA.

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Winter American Herring Gulls In Utah

By Mia McPherson|January 3rd, 2021|Categories: American Herring Gulls, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Herring Gull, close up, flight, flying, gull, gulls, immature, Larus smithsonianus, marsh, portrait, sky, subadult, water, winter, young|

Winter Herring Gulls have arrived in northern Utah and I am excited that I will have opportunities to photograph this gull species again.

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European Starling – My First Of Year Bird 2021

By Mia McPherson|January 2nd, 2021|Categories: Birds, European Starlings, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, bill, bill color, breeding plumage, calls, European Starling, in between, nonbreeding, pond, recording, starling, starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, water, winter, winter plumage|

The first bird I saw in 2021 was a European Starling perched on a power line on the road to my local grocery store about 8:15 am yesterday morning.

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Happy New Year’s Day 2021

By Mia McPherson|January 1st, 2021|Categories: Birds, Canada Geese, Pied-billed Grebes, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, bathing, Branta canadensis, Canada Geese, first bird, flight, flying, fog, geese, goose, grebe, grebes, low light, New Year's Day, photographed, Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, pond, seen, splashing, sunny, trees, urban, water, waterfowl, winter|

It is a chilly 29°F where I live in northern Utah on New Year's Day 2021 and from my living room window I can see that it is foggy outside.

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