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Cooper’s Hawk – Nearly Hidden And In Plain Sight

By Mia McPherson|March 17th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Cooper’s Hawks, Morgan County, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: accipiter, Accipiter cooperii, Accipiters, autumn, branches, canyon, Cooper’s Hawk, cryptic plumage, distance, fall, fence, First Spring, hatch year, hawk, hawks, hidden, immature, Morgan County, mountains, perched, plain, raptors, resting, Salt Lake County, sight, tree, trees, urban, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, winter, wooden fence, woodlands, young|

Two days ago, while I was photographing some Rock Squirrels, I saw a beautiful immature Cooper's Hawk fly in and land in a tangle of trees near the squirrels.

West Desert Juniper Titmouse Feeding On Juniper Berry Seeds

By Mia McPherson|November 27th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Juniper Titmouses, Simpson Springs, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Baeolophus ridgwayi, berry, bill, bird names, cone, desert, drab, eating, feeding behavior, gray, juniper, Juniper Titmouse, junipers, Juniperus osteosperma, nemesis, perched, plain, plural, seed, singular, titmice, titmouse, titmouses, Utah Juniper|

Because I have spent so much time out in the West Desert lately I have seen and heard quite a few Juniper Titmice moving through the junipers that dot the slopes of the mountains and foothills.