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I Spotted My First Of Season Western Kingbirds Four Days Ago

By Mia McPherson|March 25th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Western Kingbirds|Tags: adult, Arkansas Kingbirds, begging, breeding grounds, early, facts, fence post, flycatcher, flycatchers, immature, information, juvenile, kingbird, kingbirds, migration, perched, post, resting, Tyrannus verticalis, tyrant flycatchers, Western Kingbird, wooden post, young|

While I was up in Box Elder County, Utah four days ago I spotted my first of season Western Kingbirds chasing each other around in flight near a ranch.

Singing Male Horned Lark And The Great Salt Lake

By Mia McPherson|March 24th, 2019|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Great Salt Lake, Horned Larks, Utah|Tags: adult, boulder, desert island, Eremophila alpestris, facts, Great Salt Lake, Horned Lark, information, lark, larks, male, singing, winter, year round residents|

I was thrilled to photograph this singing male Horned Lark last week because he was high up on a boulder with the Great Salt Lake below and behind him since I don't have many images of this species with the lake in the background.

European Starling Facts and Information

By Mia McPherson|October 22nd, 2018|Categories: Birds, Davis County, European Starlings, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: barbed wire, European Starling, facts, fence, Glover Pond, information, invasive, lift off, lifting off, nonnative, pond, rusty, starling, starlings, Sturnus vulgaris|

Personally I am fascinated by European Starling murmurations, their interesting, beautiful plumage and how they can mimic the calls and songs of other birds.