whirlpool – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Whirlpool of Feeding Northern Shovelers on the Great Salt Lake

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-28T05:54:43-05:00February 2nd, 2016|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Shovelers, Utah|Tags: adult, brine shrimp, close up, comblike, dabbling ducks, duck, ducks, eggs, feeding, feeding behavior, female, flock, Great Salt Lake, hen, lake, lamellae, large bills, marsh, Northern Shoveler, plankton, portrait, raft, rafts, shoveler, shovelers, spatulated, water, waterfowl, wetlands, whirlpool|

It is interesting to see this whirlpool effect of Northern Shovelers on the surface of the Great Salt Lake and to hear the sounds of their bills dabbling in the water.