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First Of Season Male Yellow Warbler Photo

By Mia McPherson|May 9th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: adult, canyon, chasing, male, migrant, migration, mountains, recording, Setophaga petechia, song, spring, territories, tucked, warbler, warblers, willows, Yellow Warbler|

Three days ago I was able to take my first of season Yellow Warbler photos when a male came up close to where I sat in my Jeep in a high mountain canyon.

I’m Looking Forward to Photographing Green-tailed Towhees

By Mia McPherson|May 3rd, 2018|Categories: Birds, Green-tailed Towhees, Morgan County, Utah|Tags: adult, alpine, call, canyon, close up, forest, Green-tailed Towhee, males, mountain, mountains, perched, photograph, photographing, Pipilo chlorurus, portrait, song, sparrow, sparrows, spring, territories, towhee, towhees|

Green-tailed Towhees are migratory so I don't see them year round in Utah like I do their close relatives the Spotted Towhees. Green-tailed Towhees spend their winters in the southern most parts of the U.S. and in Mexico and I miss seeing a hearing them while they are away.