water dance

Bird Gatherings – Pied-billed Grebes, Great Egrets And More

By Mia McPherson|January 30th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Egrets, Pied-billed Grebes, Utah|Tags: Ardea alba, egret, egrets, flight, gathering, Great Egret, grebe, grebes, inversion, matsh, Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, skewer, wading birds, water, water dance, wedge, winter|

It is winter here but the birds know that spring is around the corner and more gatherings like the ones I saw two days ago will happen again and I hope I am able to slow down and enjoy it.

Water Dance of Leucistic Eared Grebes on the Great Salt Lake

By Mia McPherson|July 22nd, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Eared Grebes, Leucistic, Utah|Tags: abnormal pigmentation, brine flies, brine shrimp, Eared Grebe, Great Salt Lake, grebe, grebes, hypersaline lake, leucism, leucistic, Partially leucistic, pigment issues, Podiceps nigricollis, rare, saline lake, water dance|

I will probably never see and photograph so many leucistic Eared Grebes again in my life time as I did yesterday on the Great Salt Lake.