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Ring-necked Duck And An Odd Lesser Scaup

By Mia McPherson|January 20th, 2024|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Lesser Scaups, Ring-necked Ducks, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Aythya affinis, Aythya collaris, diving ducks, duck, ducks, ID, idenitification, identification, key features, Lesser Scaup, male, odd, park, pond, possible hybrid, Ring-necked Duck, scaup, scaups, spur, spurs, urban, water, winter|

Seven days ago I found a Ring-necked Duck and an odd Lesser Scaup drake at my local pond. The scaup puzzled me and I wondered if he might be a hybrid.

Female Broad-Tailed Hummingbird Feeding, Hovering And Resting

By Mia McPherson|May 8th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: back view, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, canyons, Cornus sericea, feeding, female, flower, flowering shrub, grasses, hovering, hummingbird, hummingbirds, identifying, key features, mountains, nectar, Red Osier Dogwood, resting, Ribes cereum, Selasphorus platycercus, spotlight, tail, Utah, Wax Currant|

A few days ago I photographed my first of the season Broad-tailed Hummingbird and I was elated that the bird was a female.