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One Bad Mama Mountain Bluebird And Her Swiss Army Knife

By Mia McPherson|May 6th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Mountain Bluebirds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: aspen, bluebird, bluebirds, carving, carvings, damage, disease, female, forest, initials, Jessicca, knives, Mountain Bluebird, pests, pocket knife, Reuben, shadows, Sialia currucoides, Swiss Army knife, thrush, thrushes, tree, trees|

Imagine my surprise when through my viewfinder I could see that the female Mountain Bluebird had landed on a Swiss Army knife that was stuck into the bark of one of the trees.

Swainson’s Hawk with Damage to the Feathers of the Underwing Coverts

By Mia McPherson|July 15th, 2017|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Swainson's Hawks|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo swainsoni, damage, feather damage, feathers, flight, hawks, Hawks of Montana, injured, lupine, raptors, sagebrush, Swainson's Hawk, Underwing Coverts|

I simply don't know what caused this kind of feather damage and I hope that someone can give me a better idea of what was going on with this Swainson's Hawk.