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Ring-necked Duck And An Odd Lesser Scaup

By Mia McPherson|January 20th, 2024|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Lesser Scaups, Ring-necked Ducks, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Aythya affinis, Aythya collaris, diving ducks, duck, ducks, ID, idenitification, identification, key features, Lesser Scaup, male, odd, park, pond, possible hybrid, Ring-necked Duck, scaup, scaups, spur, spurs, urban, water, winter|

Seven days ago I found a Ring-necked Duck and an odd Lesser Scaup drake at my local pond. The scaup puzzled me and I wondered if he might be a hybrid.

West Desert Wild Turkey Tom Strutting And Displaying

By Mia McPherson|April 10th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: beard, breeding display, breeding season, canyon, courtship display, displaying, fanned tail, fanning, feathers, gobble, junipers, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, road, snood, snow, spring, spring snow, spurs, strutting, tail, tom, turkey, turkeys, Wild Turkey|

I took hundreds of photos of the tom Wild Turkey fanning his tail, walking on the dirt road, strutting and displaying for the hens I could not see. And for those moments all seemed right in the world.