Clark's Nutcrackers – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Nucifraga columbiana

Clark’s Nutcrackers have pale gray heads and bodies, black bills and dark eyes, black wings with white patches and black tails with white edges. Sexes are similar.

How I Found A Flock Of Clark’s Nutcrackers Yesterday

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-26T09:48:15-05:00October 2nd, 2021|Categories: Birds, Clark's Nutcrackers, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: autumn, birding instincts, canyon, Clark's Nutcracker, corvids, Douglas fir, ears, eyes, fall, fir, firs, juniper, junipers, Juniperus osteosperma, mountains, Nucifraga columbiana, nutcracker, nutcrackers, paying attention, Pseudotsuga menziesii, skills, sky island mountains, tree, trees, Utah Juniper|

My eyes and my birding instincts didn't lead me astray because there was a Clark's Nutcracker perched at the top of the fir.

Clark’s Nutcracker in the High Uintas

By Mia McPherson|2021-10-02T10:29:15-05:00February 6th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark's Nutcrackers, High Uintas, Summit County, Uinta National Forest, Utah|Tags: adult, bird photography, birds, Clark's Nutcracker, corvids, forest, lakeside, mountains, Nucifraga columbiana, nutcracker, nutcrackers, perched, summer, Uinta Mountains|

So, a quick post this morning of a Clark's Nutcracker that I photographed in July of 2008 on my first trip to Utah to photograph birds prior to moving here in 2009.