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Adult American Robin Gobbling Down A Crabapple – Thanksgiving 2020

By Mia McPherson|November 26th, 2020|Categories: American Robins, Birds, Leucistic, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Robin, crabapple, crabapples, eating, food, gobble, gobbling, leucism, leucistic, open bill, robin, robins, snow, thrush, thrushes, tree, tree trunk, Turdus migratorius, white tail feather, winter|

You might wonder why I decided to use an American Robin photo on my Thanksgiving post today and I will explain how I picked this image.

West Desert Wild Turkey Tom Strutting And Displaying

By Mia McPherson|April 10th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: beard, breeding display, breeding season, canyon, courtship display, displaying, fanned tail, fanning, feathers, gobble, junipers, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, road, snood, snow, spring, spring snow, spurs, strutting, tail, tom, turkey, turkeys, Wild Turkey|

I took hundreds of photos of the tom Wild Turkey fanning his tail, walking on the dirt road, strutting and displaying for the hens I could not see. And for those moments all seemed right in the world.