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Common Nighthawk In Front Of The Moon

By Mia McPherson|June 2nd, 2024|Categories: Birds, Common Nighthawks, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, branch, Chordeiles minor, Common Nighthawk, first, light, moon, nighthawk, nighthawks, resting, spring, tree|

When I took this Common Nighthawk photo on my last trip up to Tishomingo NWR I lined up the shot to have the moon behind the bird on purpose.

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First Winter Red-tailed Hawk Lift Off Photos

By Mia McPherson|January 4th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: bird of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, first, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, juvenile, lift off, lifting off, marsh, metal post, raptors, red tail, Red-tailed Hawk, take off, taking off, Utah, winter, young|

Last month I spent twenty-eight lovely minutes photographing this first winter Red-tailed Hawk in the marsh at Farmington Bay WMA.

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My First Desert Tarantula Sighting In Utah

By Mia McPherson|September 11th, 2020|Categories: Desert Tarantulas, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Aphonopelma iodius, canyon, desert, Desert Tarantula, dirt road, first, foothills, mountains, road, sighting, spider, spiders, tarantula, tarantulas, walking, west desert|

I was so excited that I was shaking because the creature I had found was a Desert Tarantula which was my first sighting of one in Utah.

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