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Spring Wild Turkey Photos With Snow

By Mia McPherson|April 4th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: adult, branches, desert, displaying, female, hen, high key, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountans, road, sky island mountains, snow, snowstorm, snowy, spring, tom, tree, turkey, turkeys, upland game birds, urban, Wild Turkey|

Three years ago by this date I was already taking Wild Turkey photos in the canyons of the sky island mountains of the West Desert of Utah.

Gray Catbird, Willows and Sunshine

By Mia McPherson|July 3rd, 2018|Categories: Birds, Gray Catbirds, Summit County, Utah|Tags: adult, canyon, catbird, catbirds, Dumetella carolinensis, Gray Catbird, mimids, mountans, rufous, stand, summer, sunshine, thicket, willows|

I have truly been enjoying being able to photograph Gray Catbirds this spring and summer because they are challenging to get out in the open, because I think they are dashing in appearance and their songs always delight me.