parking sign – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

I Am Going To Miss This Rough-legged Hawk

By Mia McPherson|February 13th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Buteo lagopus, Buteos, hawk, hawks, information sign, light morph, male, marsh, morning, one way sign, parking sign, perched, raptors, refuge, Rough-legged Hawk, sign, Utah, wetlands, winter|

Last week I photographed this male Rough-legged Hawk on Monday and Thursday while at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

Searching For Rough-legged Hawks

By Mia McPherson|October 28th, 2019|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Davis County, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, cloudy sky, early morning, frost, grasses, Great Salt Lake, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, male, parking area sign, parking sign, perched, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, sagebrush, stimp|

It is currently the time of the year when I start looking for Rough-legged Hawks in northern Utah, the temps have dipped below freezing, there has been frost on the ground and now we've had our first snow.

Rough-legged Hawk on a Designated Parking Sign

By Mia McPherson|January 23rd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, feathered legs, feathered tarsi, fog, foggy, frost, frosty, hawks, hoar frost, immature, light morph, parking sign, perched, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, sign, tarsus, whiteout, whiteout conditions, winter, young|

Many of the birds here in the Salt Lake Valley find a place to roost in the evening and overnight frost begins to accumulate on their feathers like it did on this Rough-legged Hawk on a parking sign.