Turkey Vultures

Turkey vultures are large, dark brown birds with bald, red heads and pale bills with white tips.

Winter Clashes With Spring – Seasonal Changes Make Bird Photography Interesting

By |March 6th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Swainson's Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Utah, Western Kingbirds|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Winter is clashing with spring right now in northern Utah and those seasonal changes can make bird photography interesting.

Looking at 2016 in the Rear View Mirror or My Photographic Year in Review

By |December 31st, 2016|Categories: American Barn Owls, American Bitterns, American Pipits, Bald Eagles, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Beaverhead County, Belted Kingfishers, Birds, Box Elder County, Burrowing Owls, Centennial Valley, Clark County, Davis County, Double-crested Cormorants, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Horned Owls, High Uintas, Hybrid Geese, Idaho, Leucistic, Montana, Peregrine Falcons, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Red-naped Sapsuckers, Red-tailed Hawks, Salt Lake County, Short-eared Owls, Summit County, Targhee National Forest, Tooele County, Turkey Vultures, Utah, Wayne County, Western Bluebirds, Wilson's Phalaropes, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays, Yellow-bellied Marmots|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Wow, today is the last day of the year 2016. This is my photographic year in review from Utah, Idaho and Montana!

International Vulture Awareness Day 2016

By |September 3rd, 2016|Categories: Birds, Black Vultures, Box Elder County, Florida, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Vultures and condors are scavengers and help to clean up the environment by consuming carrion, road kill and gut piles left from the kills of human and non-human hunters.

Golden Eagle, Turkey Vultures Plus a Covey of Gray Partridges

By |August 26th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Golden Eagles, Gray Partridges, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I spent time in northern Utah yesterday and I was able to photograph a juvenile Golden Eagle, Turkey Vultures plus a covey of Gray Partridges.

An Exceptionally Obliging Turkey Vulture in Box Elder County

By |May 14th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I found an exceptionally obliging Turkey Vulture in Box Elder County warming up in the morning sun.

Two Bald Headed Birds – Roseate Spoonbill & Turkey Vulture

By |April 22nd, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Roseate Spoonbills, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Two bald headed birds, but very different in appearance, one is a vulture who cleans up the earth and the other a wading bird with pink and carmine plumage.

More Owls, Turkey Vultures plus a Third Year Bald Eagle

By |April 5th, 2016|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Box Elder County, Short-eared Owls, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I mentioned in my post about Short-eared Owls yesterday that I saw Burrowing Owls, Turkey Vultures and a third year Bald Eagle juvenile in northern Utah so I thought I would share a few more images form the northern Utah excursion.

Turkey Vulture in Box Elder County – Nature’s Picker Uppers

By |January 7th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

When I photographed this Turkey Vulture in Box Elder County last summer it flew from the post it had been perched on and landed a bit further away where it quickly began cleaning its bill

Seeing the tail end…

By |December 31st, 2013|Categories: American Barn Owls, Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Red-tailed Hawks, Ring-necked Pheasants, Rough-legged Hawks, Tooele County, Turkey Vultures, Utah, Western Grebes|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Seeing the tail end... of 2013 on this last day of December.

The West Desert of Utah

By |February 29th, 2012|Categories: Horned Larks, Pronghorn, Red-tailed Hawks, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Turkey Vultures, Utah, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I am one of those people who love deserts and the West Desert of Utah is once again beckoning to me. The weather here in Utah is very changeable right now, it can feel like spring one day and the next it still feels like winter but it won't be long before the weather levels out and the west desert will begin to green up.

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