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Horned Passalus Beetle Photos From Oklahoma

By Mia McPherson|July 26th, 2023|Categories: Horned Passalus Beetles, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, beetle, beetles, bess beetles, Betsey Beetles, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, crawling, decaying, fallen, food, Horned Passalus Beetle, insects, log, Odontotaenius disjunctus, Patent-leather Beetles, searching, spring, tree, wood|

I'm focusing on beetles this morning. More precisely, I'm sharing Horned Passalus Beetle photos that I took at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

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Searching And Listening For Cedar Waxwings

By Mia McPherson|May 22nd, 2020|Categories: Birds, Cedar Waxwings, East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Bombycilla cedrorum, branch, calls, Cedar Waxwing, Crataegus rivularis, flower petals, flowers, forest, hawthorn, leaves, listening, perched, River Hawthorn, searching, staring, tree, waxwing, waxwings|

Every time I've gone up into the Wasatch Mountains lately I have been searching and listening for Cedar Waxwings to observe and photograph.

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Photographing Immature Forster’s Terns On The Hunt And Catching Prey

By Mia McPherson|September 21st, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Forster's Terns, Utah|Tags: dropping, fish, flight, flying, Forster’s Tern, hunt, hunting, immature, juvenile, lifting off, photograph, photographing, pond, prey, searching, Sterna forsteri, tadpole, tern, terns, worn juvenile|

I had fun testing my skills by photographing several immature Forster's Terns that were hunting for and catching prey at Farmington Bay WMA two days ago.

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Yellow Warbler Fledgling Foraging On Its Own

By Mia McPherson|July 5th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Summit County, Utah, Yellow Warblers|Tags: fledgling, food, foraging, immature, juvenile, searching, Setophaga petechia, warbler, warblers, wood-warblers, Yellow Warbler, young|

Imagine moving down a gravel road and seeing just a tiny flash of movement and light-colored plumage in a stand of green vegetation and trying to figure out if it is a bright leaf in the breeze or a fledgling Yellow Warbler in a split second.

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