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Female American Goldfinch With Thistles

By Mia McPherson|July 22nd, 2022|Categories: American Goldfinches, Birds, Musk Thistle, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, American Goldfinch, aphids, blooming, blooms, blossoms, canyon, Carduus nutans, female, finch, finches, flowering, goldfinch, goldfinches, mountains, Musk Thistle, nonnative, perched, perching, pink wildflowers, Spinus tristis, summer, thistle, thistles, wildflowers|

Right after I photographed a juvenile Lazuli Bunting two days ago a female American Goldfinch landed in a patch of thistles in front of me.

Savannah Sparrows in Glacier County, Montana

By Mia McPherson|August 29th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Glacier County, Montana, Savannah Sparrows|Tags: adult, barbed wire, farm, farmland, fence, Glacier County, grasses, nature photography, Passerculus sandwichensis, perching, Savannah Sparrow, sparrow, sparrows, stretching, wing|

During my travels in Montana earlier this month I saw loads of Savannah Sparrows and although there were many in southwestern Montana I only photographed the ones on the farm in Glacier County.