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Spring Wild Turkey Tom Displaying Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 21st, 2021|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Wild Turkeys|Tags: adult, courtship behavior, courtship display, desert, dewlap, displaying, male, Meleagris gallopavo, snood, spring, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey|

Yesterday morning I spent a bit of time observing and photographing this Wild Turkey tom strutting and displaying in Box Elder County, Utah.

Close Up Photos Of A Bull Moose In Velvet Eating Willows

By Mia McPherson|June 1st, 2018|Categories: Moose, Summit County, Uinta Wasatch Cache National Forest, Utah|Tags: Alces alces, apline, bell, bull, close up, dewlap, eating, forest, funny, male, Moose, mountains, nibbling, portrait, riparian habitat, spring, willows|

I laughed again when I saw this photo on my camera LCD, the Moose was reaching to grab more willow leaves but was also keeping an eye on me in the mobile blind while his "beard" swung like the clapper of a bell.