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Sharing Sunrise With Short-eared Owl Chicks

By Mia McPherson|May 15th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Short-eared Owls, Utah|Tags: Asio flammeus, birds of prey, brush, chick, dawn, juvenile, morning light, owl, owlet, owls, Owls of Utah, roadside, Short-eared Owl, sunrise, young|

I spent a few minutes photographing some of the cutest Short-eared Owl chicks that were just the width of a ditch away from the road that May morning.

Turd Birds; errr… I mean Sage Thrashers

By Mia McPherson|October 22nd, 2011|Categories: Davis County, Frustrations in bird photography, Humor, Sage Thrashers, Shrubs, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, blooming, brush, close, flight, frustrations in bird photography, hidden, humor, lift off, Oreoscoptes montanus, rabbitbrush, Sage Thrasher, thrasher, thrashers, turd birds|

I can't acquire focus on the Lunatic Sage Thrashers because they don't ever stay still long enough, they race around willy-nilly until dizziness forces me to stop watching them. Think Ricochet Rabbit.