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Spring Great Blue Heron Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 17th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, celebrate, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, marsh, marshes, river, spring, survival, wading, wading birds, wetlands, winter|

The first Great Blue Heron was quietly wading through the water in search of prey and the second heron was looking at something in the distance.

A Lifer for Me – Pectoral Sandpiper at Farmington Bay WMA

By Mia McPherson|September 25th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Pectoral Sandpipers, Utah|Tags: alert, autumn, Calidris melanotos, fall, grasses, lifer, marsh, marshy, migration, mud, Pectoral Sandpiper, rarity, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, wading, walking, water, wetlands|

It isn't every day that I add a lifer to the list of shorebirds I have seen and photographed but yesterday I did when I saw and photographed a Pectoral Sandpiper.