year round

Four Winter Ring-billed Gull Images

By Mia McPherson|January 17th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Ring-billed Gulls, Utah|Tags: adult, calm, down, gull, gulls, ice, ice shelf, icy, Larus delawarensis, looking, marsh, nonbreeding plumage, paddling, Ring-billed Gull, standing, water, wetland, winter, year round|

Last week I was just as excited to take Ring-billed Gull images as I was to take photos of a delightful Horned Grebe on the marsh at Bear River MBR.

Ferruginous Hawks in Utah

By Mia McPherson|December 26th, 2019|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, agricultural, birds of prey, breeding habitat, Buteo regalis, Buteos, deserts, Ferruginous Hawk, flat, foothills, grasslands, hawks, Hawks of Utah, largest buteo, migration habitat, raptors, rolling, sagebrush steppe, saltbush-greasewood, shrublands, terrain, winter habitat, year round|

Knowing what kind of habitat Ferruginous Hawks prefer during all four seasons here in northern Utah can increase the chances of finding them year round.