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International Vulture Awareness Day 2023

By Mia McPherson|September 2nd, 2023|Categories: Birds, Black Vultures, Box Elder County, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: adult, Black Vulture, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, Cathartes aura, cliff face, Coragyps atratus, desert, foothills, immature, juvenile, lichen, lichens, nest, nesting cavity tree, ranchlands, raptors, rocks, roosting, spring, Steve Creek, summer, tree, Turkey Vulture, vulture, vultures, young|

Today is International Vulture Awareness Day 2023. I admit to having a soft spot for vultures because they are often misunderstood, and because I tend to stand up for those who have no voice.

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Red-headed Woodpecker Photos From Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|July 20th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Oklahoma, Red-headed Woodpeckers, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, branches, Cottonwood, dead, leaves, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, nest, nesting, nesting cavity, nesting cavity tree, Red-headed Woodpecker, sky, snag, spring, tree, trunk, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

These Red-headed Woodpecker photos were taken last month at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. I had one great day with this species in two spots on the refuge.

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Young Black Vulture Snuggled Into A Tree Cavity Nest

By Mia McPherson|June 23rd, 2023|Categories: Birds, Black Vultures, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: Black Vulture, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, Coragyps atratus, immature, juvenile, nesting cavity tree, summer, tree, vulture, vultures, young|

This young Black Vulture in a tree cavity nest made me happy dance yesterday morning at Sequoyah NWR when it was close to the entrance of the nesting cavity.

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Photographing a Male Northern Flicker Excavating a Nesting Cavity

By Mia McPherson|March 23rd, 2018|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Nesting Birds, Northern Flickers, Targhee National Forest, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: adult, aspen, Colaptes auratus, ethics, excavating, flicker, flickers, forest, male, nesting birds, nesting cavity, nesting cavity tree, nesting tree, Northern Flicker, photograph, photographing, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

I dug into my archives and picked these Northern Flicker photos from May of 2015 to share today because I saw a Northern Flicker yesterday and thought of how they will soon start excavating their nesting cavities to rear their young in.

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