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Adult Golden Eagle On The Wing

By Mia McPherson|December 4th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Golden Eagles, Utah|Tags: adult, Aquila chrysaetos, autumn, birds of prey, cliff, desert, eagle, eagles, fall, flight, flying, Golden Eagle, on the wing, raptor, ridge, sage, sagebrush, sky|

Back in November of 2017, I took this photo of an adult Golden Eagle flying past a ridge in Box Elder County. I'm not sure why I never shared it until today.

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Golden Eagle Rising Above A Ridge

By Mia McPherson|October 22nd, 2022|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Golden Eagles, Utah|Tags: adult, Aquila chrysaetos, autumn, birds of prey, desert, eagle, eagles, fall, flight, flying, foothills, Golden Eagle, grasses, rabbitbrush, raptors, ridge, sky|

This morning I'm sharing a photo of a gorgeous adult Golden Eagle that I took just as it was taking off from a ridge, shortly after I found it.

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American White Pelicans – PeliCam and PeliTrack

By Mia McPherson|March 26th, 2017|Categories: American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American White Pelican, beak, bill, breeding colony, breeding season, caruncle, climate change, epidermal plate, flight, flock, fluffed up, flying, Great Salt Lake Institute, Gunnison Island, horn, nesting birds, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelicam, pelican, pelicans, PeliTrack, pond, ridge, sky, soaring, Tracy Aviary, water, Westminster|

American White Pelicans are returning to their breeding grounds in Utah and I have already seen a few of them myself and though I haven't been able to photograph them yet I know I will soon.

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Adult Red-tailed Hawk on a ridge

By Mia McPherson|March 29th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Red-tailed Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, flight, flying, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lift off, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, ridge, Western Red-tailed hawk|

Tooele County beckoned yesterday and I am glad it did because of coming across this adult Red-tailed Hawk.

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Mating Killdeer – Thanks to a Coyote

By Mia McPherson|April 18th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Coyotes, Davis County, Killdeer, Utah|Tags: adult, breeding season, Canis latrans, Charadrius vociferus, Coyote, desert island, female, Killdeer, male, mating, mounting, plover, plovers, ridge, rocky slope, scrape, shorebird, shorebirds, spring|

Last week I wrote about Long-billed Curlews having a Territorial Encounter but earlier that same morning I had another wonderful photographic encounter thanks to a scruffy looking, rain soaked Coyote waking up at the top of a ridge.

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