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Adult Western Kingbird Perched on Rusty Barbed Wire in Northern Utah

By Mia McPherson|May 14th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Western Kingbirds|Tags: adult, barbed wire, fence, flycatcher, flycatchers, greenery, kingbird, kingbirds, perched, spring, Tyrannus verticalis, tyrant flycatchers, Western Kingbird|

Last week I photographed this adult Western Kingbird perched on rusty barbed wire up in northern Utah with spring greenery behind it and I liked the greens, yellows, grays and whites in the photo.

Perched male Red-naped Sapsucker in Idaho’s Targhee National Forest

By Mia McPherson|December 4th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Red-naped Sapsuckers, Targhee National Forest|Tags: adult, background, branch, conifers, forest, forest edge, greenery, male, nesting cavity, perched, Red-naped Sapsucker, sapsucker, sapsuckers, Sphyrapicus nuchalis, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

This Red-naped Sapsucker was perched on a dead aspen branch near the nesting cavity where I photographed a chick being fed by the adults in mid July.