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Female American Kestrel With Her Prey

By Mia McPherson|December 11th, 2020|Categories: American Kestrels, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Kestrel, birds of prey, Falco sparverius, falcon, falcons, Falcons of Utah, female, grasping, kestrel, kestrels, prey, raptors, sign post, talons, vole, winter, wooden post|

Three days ago I had one minute with a beautiful adult female American Kestrel and her partially eaten prey at Farmington Bay WMA.

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Mountain Chickadees – Listening For Their Songs And Calls

By Mia McPherson|October 27th, 2020|Categories: Mountain Chickadees, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: bill, call, chickadee, chickadees, cone, Douglas fir, feeding, feet, fir cone, food, foraging, grasping, juniper, Juniperus osteosperma, Mountain Chickadee, Poecile gambeli, Pseudotsuga menziesii, resting, Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir, song|

I listen for birds everywhere I go. Their calls and songs help me to locate them so I can photograph and observe them as they go about their lives.

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Rock Squirrel Close Up In A Fragrant Sumac Shrub

By Mia McPherson|September 28th, 2020|Categories: Rock Squirrels, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, branch, desert, eye, forest, Fragrant Sumac, grasping, mountains, Otospermophilus variegatus, Rhus aromatica, Rock Squirrel, shrub, sky island mountains, squirrel, squirrels, sumac, sumacs, summer|

The Rock Squirrel was grasping a sumac branch and the shrub was so close to me I wasn't even sure I was going to be able to focus on it.

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