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Gray Flycatcher And Memories Of Billy Fenimore

By |2024-02-05T14:32:26-07:00May 11th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Gray Flycatchers, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

While I was out in the West Desert of Utah yesterday I thought about my friend Billy Fenimore and his family as I photographed this adult Gray Flycatcher.

Gray Flycatcher Perched In Fragrant Sumac

By |2022-05-11T04:07:37-06:00September 8th, 2019|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Box Elder County, Gray Flycatchers, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

As it turns out this flycatcher gave me a wonderful behavioral clue that made identifying it a little easier for me because I watched it wag its tail slowly up and down repeatedly while perched which Gray Flycatchers are known to do.

Perched Gray Flycatcher Eating A Damselfly

By |2022-05-11T04:10:14-06:00June 27th, 2017|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Gray Flycatchers, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

As I watched the Gray Flycatcher it flew towards me, snatched a damselfly from mid air then landed on a dead branch not too far away and proceeded to eat it while I photographed the bird.

Shades of Gray in Three Bird Species

By |2022-05-10T14:06:34-06:00April 25th, 2015|Categories: Bahamas, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Glacier County, Gray Catbirds, Gray Flycatchers, Gray Partridges, Montana, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It has been gray for a couple of days and it supposed to be gray until this front passes and while gray days can get me down gray birds lift me back up.

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