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Rufous Hummingbird Plus Smoky Rising Sun Photos

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-01T06:53:07-05:00September 1st, 2021|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Low light, Rufous Hummingbirds, Utah, western skies|Tags: 7:40 am, bloom, blooming, Cleomella serrulata, desert island, eating, fall migration, feeding, flight, flying, haze, hovering, hummingbird, hummingbirds, immature/female, low light, morning, nectaring, pink wildflowers, rising, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, Rufous Hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, smoke, smoky, smoky haze, summer, sun, tail flare, wildfires, wildflowers|

Yesterday I went out to Antelope Island for the first time since April and I took hundreds of Rufous Hummingbird photos plus some of the rising sun.

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Moon set over the Stansbury Mountains of the West Desert

By Mia McPherson|2021-10-10T05:50:34-05:00October 22nd, 2013|Categories: Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, western skies|Tags: autumn, canyons, Cirrus uncinus, fall, junipers, mares tail, moon, moon set, mountains, nature, nature photography, peaks, photography, sage, sagebrush, sky island mountains, trees|

Yesterday while in the West Desert in Tooele County the cirrus clouds appealed to me that fanned out over the Stansbury Mountains.

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Goodbye 2012 – Hello 2013

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-06T10:43:48-05:00January 1st, 2013|Categories: American Bison, American Kestrels, Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Beaverhead County, Burrowing Owls, California Gulls, Centennial Valley, Coyotes, Montana, Moose, Northern Harriers, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Red-tailed Hawks, Short-eared Owls, Snowy Egrets, Swainson's Hawks, Utah, valley, western skies|Tags: Antelope Island State Park, bird photography, Davis County, Montana, nature, nature photography, Red Rock Lakes NWR, Utah, wildlife photography|

2012 was a fantastic year for me as a photographer and I am looking forward to the joys that 2013 will bring. Happy New Year to all.

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