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Plain Brown Bird?? Pfflllt…

By Mia McPherson|June 14th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Utah, Willets|Tags: adult, balanced, plain brown bird, rabbitbrush, sandpipers, shorebirds, Tringa semipalmata, Tringa semipalmata inornata, undeside, Willet, willets, wings|

I've heard people call Willets "Plain Brown Birds". I reckon they may have never seen one looking like this Willet.

Ferruginous Hawk in Tooele County, Utah

By Mia McPherson|February 8th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, balanced, birds of prey, Buteo regalis, Buteos, desert, fall, feathered legs, fence post, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lift off, light morph, perched, sky, Tooele County, Utah, west desert, wing lift|

There aren't many people in the west desert of Utah thus the raptors and other birds that live there are not habituated to people so they are very skittish even when using a mobile blind.