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European Starling eating Brine flies on the shoreline of the Great Salt Lake

By Mia McPherson|June 21st, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Brine Flies, Davis County, European Starlings, Utah|Tags: adult, brine flies, brine fly, eating, European Starling, flies, Great Salt Lake, hyper saline, lake, saline, shoreline, species adaptation, starling, starlings, Sturnus vulgaris|

Last week I was photographing shorebirds and a Chukar eating Brine flies on the shore of the Great Salt Lake when this European Starling flew in and started to eat them too.

Eared Grebe – Gray Day

By Mia McPherson|December 13th, 2010|Categories: Birds, Eared Grebes, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Low light, Utah|Tags: adult, Eared Grebe, gray day, Great Salt Lake, grebe, grebes, low light, marsh, most abundant grebe, nonbreeding plumage, North America, Podiceps nigricollis, saline, water, wetlands|

Eared Grebes are the most abundant grebe in North America, there are times I see huge flocks of them on the Great Salt Lake numbering in the tens of thousands.

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