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Kamas Valley Western Meadowlark With A Grasshopper

By |2023-08-21T04:48:49-05:00August 21st, 2023|Categories: Birds, Kamas Valley, Summit County, Utah, Western Meadowlarks|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The first bird I photographed last week from the side of the road in the Kamas Valley was this scruffy Western Meadowlark with a grasshopper.

Grasshopper On A Pickup At Sequoyah NWR

By |2023-07-28T05:59:19-05:00July 22nd, 2023|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Wildlife|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Today's image is a grasshopper on a pickup and its reflection. I don't have any idea what species it is but I hopped out of the pickup to take the photo.

Eastern Phoebe In Oklahoma

By |2023-07-10T04:36:52-05:00July 10th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Eastern Phoebes, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I have to say that I was thrilled to photograph this Eastern Phoebe with prey last month while I was visiting Arkansas and Sequoyah NWR in northeast Oklahoma.

Request For Grasshopper Identification

By |2022-07-24T06:07:04-05:00July 24th, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildlife|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I have struggled for the past four days trying to identify a bright green grasshopper nymph that I found on a Common Mullein up in the Wasatch Mountains.

Two-striped Grasshopper Photographed on Showy Milkweed

By |2021-05-16T04:13:57-05:00August 10th, 2019|Categories: Summit County, Two-striped Grasshoppers, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

I researched Utah's grasshoppers and found out that this is a Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) and even though I may have seen this species of grasshopper before it is a photographic lifer for me.

Prickly Poppies, Bees and a Grasshopper

By |2022-08-14T17:03:12-05:00June 29th, 2017|Categories: Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Each Prickly Poppy flower is about 3 to 5 inches across with yellow centers of clustered stamens and delicate petals that look like white crepe paper.

American Kestrel Landing With A Grasshopper

By |2022-12-10T09:08:46-06:00November 8th, 2016|Categories: American Kestrels, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I was able take one image of the American Kestrel landing with a grasshopper in his bill that was sharp and that I liked.

An Adult Sage Thrasher with Prey on Public Land

By |2022-03-13T13:54:19-05:00January 14th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Sage Thrashers, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This adult Sage Thrasher with prey was photographed on public lands in Tooele County in one of the canyons of the Stansbury Mountains last July.

Lark Sparrow behaviors and a Grasshopper

By |2022-08-31T06:01:30-05:00June 14th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Lark Sparrows, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It was great to get back out into the field yesterday and even better that there were some cooperative Lark Sparrows in my viewfinder.

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