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My Video With A Surprise Great Blue Heron

By |2024-02-19T07:35:41-06:00February 19th, 2024|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Great Blue Herons, Utah, Video|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On my last trip up to Bear River MBR, I stopped to take a video on the auto tour loop, and a Great Blue Heron surprised me by flying into view over the river.

Surprise Grasshopper Sparrow at Bear River MBR

By |2023-04-27T03:41:19-05:00April 27th, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Grasshopper Sparrows, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

After a rough start to my week, I very much needed some time out in nature yesterday morning. Nature, in turn, gifted me with a surprise Grasshopper Sparrow.

Two Merlins Were My Best Finds Of The Day At Bear River MBR

By |2024-02-15T03:42:42-06:00April 24th, 2019|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Merlins, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

There isn't a single day in the field where I take my eyesight and my keen spotting abilities for granted and yesterday those attributes netted me not one but two Merlins while I was at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

Surprise Peregrine Falcon With Prey On A Brisk Winter Morning

By |2024-03-14T06:26:27-05:00January 5th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Peregrine Falcons, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Finding and photographing the surprise Peregrine Falcon with prey was one of the brightest spots of my day.

Paying Attention to the Birds Beyond My Subject – The Surprise Curlew Behind the Reddish Egret

By |2020-07-24T06:23:24-05:00January 6th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Long-billed Curlews, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I kept this photo of the Reddish Egret with the surprise curlew in the background not because it is a great image but to remind myself to look beyond the subject in front of me.

Burrowing Owl Surprise

By |2021-09-06T03:55:54-05:00November 20th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Burrowing Owls, Davis County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

There are Burrowing Owls on Antelope Island; I've photographed them hundreds of times, but yesterday I spotted one in a location I had never seen one before.

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