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The Winds Of Change Affect My Access To Some Mountain Canyons

By Mia McPherson|2022-05-27T06:50:25-05:00November 8th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, caching, canyons, changes, changing, clinging, cones, Douglas fir, firs, mountains, nuthatch, nuthatches, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir, seeds, Sitta canadensis, upside down, weather, wind, winds|

I always feel a sense of sadness when I can't get to those mountain canyons and the birds that live there all year long when they close those gates for the winter.

Burrowing Owls with Wildflowers on a Windy Day

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-08T14:32:37-05:00April 14th, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Burrowing Owls, Davis County, Utah|Tags: Athene cunicularia, birds of prey, blowing sand, burrow, Burrowing Owl, Erodium cicutarium, female, male, oolitic sand, owls, Owls of Utah, Redstem Filaree, sand, wildflowers, wind, winds, windy, winking|

It was challenging to photograph these Burrowing Owls and wildflowers yesterday in the windy conditions but I am glad I had the opportunity because the wildflowers won't last all that long.