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Female Black-chinned Hummingbird And A Knothole

By Mia McPherson|May 28th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Black-chinned Hummingbirds, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, Archilochus alexandri, behavior, Black-chinned Hummingbird, canyon, female, flight, flying, forest, hummingbird, knothole, mountains, sky island mountains, spring, tree, trees|

Yesterday while out in the sky island mountains of the West Desert I spotted a female Black-chinned Hummingbird repeatedly checking out a knothole in a tree.

Nesting House Wrens And A Closed Gate

By Mia McPherson|May 1st, 2019|Categories: Birds, House Wrens, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: breeding season, forest, House Wren, knothole, natural, nest, nesting cavity, nesting season, spring, Troglodytes aedon, wren, wrens|

I tried to get up into a canyon in the Stansbury Mountains yesterday but was met with a closed gate so I turned my Jeep around and decided that I would explore a different canyon.