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Dark Morph Ferruginous Hawk Photographed In Early Morning Light

By Mia McPherson|November 24th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: bill, birds of prey, bloody, Buteo regalis, Buteos, dark morph, early morning, early morning light, fence post, Ferruginous Hawk, foothills, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lift off, raptors, resting, sky island mountains|

I photograph birds all the time and there are a few that simply take my breath away and totally mesmerize me, this dark morph Ferruginous Hawk is one of those birds.

Adult Burrowing Owl About to Lift Off

By Mia McPherson|June 13th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Burrowing Owls, Utah|Tags: adult, Athene cunicularia, beak, bill, bloody, Burrowing Owl, desert, fence post, lift off, male, metal post, owls, spring, Western Burrowing Owl|

I was photographing this adult hoping to get it on lift off and in flight but looked away from my viewfinder to check my exposure exactly at the time it did lift off so I missed the shots.