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Young Western Tanager in the Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-02T03:50:06-05:00September 2nd, 2022|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Western Tanagers|Tags: forest edge, Gambel Oak, immature, oaks, perched, Piranga ludoviciana, Poecile gambeli, summer, tanager, tanagers, tree, Western Tanager, young|

Yesterday morning I found this young Western Tanager in the Wasatch Mountains after it came out of a Gambel Oak tree to perch out into the open.

Fall Colors In The Wasatch Mountains Plus A Male Dusky Grouse

By Mia McPherson|2022-10-02T06:08:47-05:00September 28th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Dusky Grouse, Sky Line Drive, Bountiful Canyon, Trees, Uinta Wasatch Cache National Forest, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: aspens, autumn, autumn colors, Bountiful Peak, changing seasons, conifers, Dendragapus obscurus, Dusky Grouse, fall, fall colors, Francis Peak, Gambel Oak, grouse, male, mountains, oaks, Quaking Aspen, road, upland game birds|

This morning is cloudy and gray but seven years ago today it was bright, the air was crisp and the fall colors of the Front Range of the Wasatch Mountains were in their full glory.