spread wing posture

Fall Great Blue Heron Flasher

By Mia McPherson|September 29th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, behavior, cattails, evaporative cooling, fall, flasher, flasher pose, Great Blue Heron, gular fluttering, heron, herons, man made nest, marsh, nest, solar energy, spread wing posture, sunning pose, thermoregulation, wading birds, wetlands|

Earlier this week, I found this adult Great Blue Heron in a Flasher pose while resting on a human-made nest in a pond at Farmington Bay WMA in northern Utah.

More Owls, Turkey Vultures plus a Third Year Bald Eagle

By Mia McPherson|April 5th, 2016|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Box Elder County, Short-eared Owls, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: age progression, Asio flammeus, Athene cunicularia, Bald Eagle, Burrowing Owl, Cathartes aura, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, pair, preened, roused, Short-eared Owl, spread wing posture, sunning, thermoregulation, third year, Turkey Vulture|

I mentioned in my post about Short-eared Owls yesterday that I saw Burrowing Owls, Turkey Vultures and a third year Bald Eagle juvenile in northern Utah so I thought I would share a few more images form the northern Utah excursion.