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Immature Female Northern Harrier

By Mia McPherson|December 12th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Environment, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Habitat, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: autumn, birds of prey, Circus hudsonius, clouds, fall, female, field, first winter, flight, flying, harrier, harriers, hawk, hawks, immature, marsh, Northern Harrier, on the wing, perched, post, raptors, scanning, sky, snow, snowy, wetlands, wooden post, young|

Today I am sharing three photos of an immature female Northern Harrier that I took ten years ago at Farmington Bay WMA.

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Photographing An Immature Ferruginous Hawk Hunting For Breakfast

By Mia McPherson|November 28th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: autumn, birds of prey, Buteo regalis, Buteos, desert, fall, fence post, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, flying, foothills, hatch year, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, hunting, immature, lifting off, light morph, mountains, prey, raptors, scanning, snow-topped, staring, taking off, wooden post, young|

Yesterday morning not long after sunrise I spent some time photographing a light morph, immature Ferruginous Hawk hunting for its breakfast.

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