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Blooming Coreopsis And A Fly

By Mia McPherson|2023-06-05T12:14:25-05:00June 7th, 2023|Categories: Trees, Shrubs and Flowers|Tags: blooming, blooms, blossom, bug, Common Green Bottle Fly, coreopsis, flies, flower, fly, garden, insects, yellow|

This morning's coreopsis photo didn't bug me because it had a fly on one of the flowers. In fact the fly didn’t bother me at all.

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Young Western Kingbird In The West Desert

By Mia McPherson|2022-08-20T04:38:29-05:00August 20th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Western Kingbirds|Tags: barbed wire, bug, desert, eating, foothills, immature, kingbird, kingbirds, perched, sky island mountains, summer, Tyrannus verticalis, tyrant flycatchers, Western Kingbird, young|

While I was out exploring in the West Desert three days ago I spotted this young Western Kingbird perched on a barbed wire fence close to the road.

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Loggerhead Shrikes and a few things that bug them

By Mia McPherson|2021-11-17T03:38:07-06:00May 20th, 2014|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Loggerhead Shrikes, Midges, Utah|Tags: adult, bug, Chironomidae, desert island, Great Salt Lake, Lanius ludovicianus, Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrikes, midge, midges, moth, prey, shrike, shrikes, spring, summer|

This morning while Antelope Island there was a Loggerhead Shrike perched on a dead branch that was near the north shoreline of the Great Salt Lake.

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