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Band-winged and Striped Meadowhawk Dragonfly Photos

By |October 18th, 2022|Categories: Band-winged Meadowhawks, Davis County, Dragonflies, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Striped Meadowhawks, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

At Farmington Bay WMA yesterday I saw and photographed two kinds of meadowhawk dragonflies including this Band-winged Meadowhawk resting on a boulder.

Upside Down Nashville Warbler Foraging For Aphids

By |September 3rd, 2020|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Nashville Warblers, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I wanted to share this particular image today and explain how I got this shot of an upside down male Nashville Warbler hanging on a willow branch while foraging for aphids.

Upside Down Winter American Goldfinch Feeding On Wild Sunflower Seeds

By |November 26th, 2019|Categories: American Goldfinches, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I feel a little like this American Goldfinch this morning, meaning I feel like I am upside down because of issues on my web site that started just after I woke up at o'dark hundred.

Focusing On Photographing Foraging Mountain Chickadees

By |November 19th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Mountain Chickadees, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Two mornings ago a small flock of Mountain Chickadees came in to forage on the seeds in some Douglas Fir trees and I had fun trying to keep up with the small dynamos.

How Being An Army Brat Netted Me These Red-breasted Nuthatch Photos

By |November 4th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I proudly credit being an Army Brat on discovering a great location to photograph these Red-breasted Nuthatches and other woodland birds.

Yellow Warbler High In The Uinta Mountains

By |May 25th, 2019|Categories: Birds, High Uintas, Summit County, Uinta National Forest, Uinta Wasatch Cache National Forest, Utah, Yellow Warblers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

The other bird I photographed that day in the high Uintas was a gorgeous male Yellow Warbler foraging in an aspen tree very close to where I sat inside a "mobile" blind at the edge of a dirt road.

Red-breasted Nuthatches Hanging Upside Down

By |November 11th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

The Red-breasted Nuthatches that I photographed foraging and hanging upside down yesterday weren't calling, they seem to be quiet during that activity but I could hear other nuthatches in the trees all around me.

Terrific Fun Photographing a Yellow-bellied Marmot Pup Climbing a Fence!

By |April 15th, 2018|Categories: Box Elder County, Utah, Yellow-bellied Marmots|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It looked to me like this Yellow-bellied Marmot pup was doing CrossFit, a move my son who is active in CrossFit tells me is called a "bar muscle up". By then I was laughing so hard that it was hard to maintain focus on the marmot pup while it was hanging there on the fence.

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