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Wild Turkey Images – Happy Thanksgiving 2024

By Mia McPherson|November 28th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: autumn, canyon, close up, desert mountains, fall, fearless, female, foraging, hen, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, portrait, sky island mountains, Stansbury Mountains, turkey, turkeys, Wild Turkey|

Today, I'm sharing Wild Turkey images of foraging hens I found in the Stansbury Mountains of northern Utah because it's Thanksgiving Day. It was a lovely day.

Thoughts on Our Drought, Douglas Firs, And Birds

By Mia McPherson|September 27th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Tooele County, Trees, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, autumn, branch, canyons, cone, cones, desert, desert mountains, Douglas fir, drought, drought stressed, exceptional drought, fall, firs, mountains, nuthatch, nuthatches, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir, Sitta canadensis, sky island mountains, tree|

Drought stressed Douglas Fir trees will produce what is called a "stress crop" of cones which is what I believe is happening to the firs in this location.