Western Yellow Jacket

Loggerhead Shrikes With Prey in Northern Utah

By Mia McPherson|October 27th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Loggerhead Shrikes, Utah|Tags: adult, Armored Stink Beetle, Eleodes obscurus, Loggerhead Shrike, prey, shrike, shrikes, Vespula pensylvanica, Western Yellow Jacket|

Three days ago while photographing birds in northern Utah I was able to take images of two individual Loggerhead Shrikes with prey.

Rocky Mountain Bee Plant

By Mia McPherson|August 7th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Antelope Island State Park, Cleomella serrulata, Davis County, nature photography, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, Western Yellow Jacket, wildlife photography|

Rocky Mountain Bee Plants (Cleomella serrulata) are one of the wildflowers that are currently in bloom on Antelope Island State Park in some locations, they aren't as widespread as the Moth Mulleins so I treasure finding them.