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Green-tailed Towhee Singing in the Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|June 1st, 2017|Categories: Birds, Green-tailed Towhees, Morgan County, Utah|Tags: adult, branch, canyon, close up, flowering, flowering shrub, flowers, Green-tailed Towhee, head tilt, leafy, male, mountains, perched, Pipilo chlorurus, portrait, sagebrush, serviceberry, shrub, singing, sparrow, sparrows, towhee, towhees, white flowers|

One good bird can make the the day when photographing birds in the field, yesterday that bird was a male Green-tailed Towhee I spotted perched on a shrub in a canyon in the Wasatch Mountains.

Bananaquit perched on Bougainvillea in the Bahamas

By Mia McPherson|October 11th, 2016|Categories: Bahamas, Bananaquits, Birds|Tags: adult, Bananaquit, Bananaquits, Bougainvillea, flowering shrub, flowers, Half Moon Cay, island, perched, spring, tropical|

I was especially pleased when I found this Bananaquit perched on a colorful Bougainvillea in decent light for a few frames.