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Coming Soon: Great-tailed Grackle Breeding Season

By Mia McPherson|2023-02-21T03:48:56-06:00February 21st, 2023|Categories: Birds, Great-tailed Grackles, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, bath, blackbirds, breeding display, close up, display, displaying, duo, feather, female, grackle, grackles, Great-tailed Grackle, Head-Up, intensely, looking, male, park, portrait, preening-tail, Quiscalus mexicanus, Ruff-Out, solo, spring, urban, winter|

On two of my most recent walks I have seen Great-tailed Grackles. Seeing them reminded me that Great-tailed Grackle breeding season is coming soon.

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Spring Male Great-tailed Grackle Portraits

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-09T05:35:55-05:00April 9th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Great-tailed Grackles, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Bill-Up, blackbird, blackbirds, breeding season, close up, display, displaying, grackle, grackles, Great-tailed Grackle, Head-Up, male, park, portrait, Quiscalus mexicanus, Ruff-Out, Salt Lake County, spring, urban, Utah|

Yesterday morning I had fun taking spring male Great-tailed Grackle portraits because these males were displaying and not paying attention to me or my camera.

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Spring Wild Turkey Tom Displays

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-21T16:09:24-05:00March 17th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: breeding display, courtship display, display, displaying, female, grasses, hen, junipers, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, plumage variation, smoke phase, spring, strutting, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland game birds, Wild Turkey|

The last time I was up in the Wasatch Mountains I found a Wild Turkey tom displaying next to some old farm equipment for the nearby hens.

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Juvenile American Dippers

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-29T04:17:43-05:00September 24th, 2014|Categories: American Dippers, Birds, Cascade Springs, Utah, Wasatch County|Tags: American Dipper, aquatic songbird, autumn, behavior, Cinclus mexicanus, display, fall, foraging, immature, juvenile, prey, rushing water, stream, Uinta National Forest, water, water ouzel, young|

The drive to Cascade Springs was beautiful yesterday with the beginnings of fall colors on the mountains but for me the best part was photographing American Dippers again.

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Portrait of a male Long-billed Curlew and a Western Kingbird display

By Mia McPherson|2020-03-25T08:12:01-05:00June 12th, 2014|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Long-billed Curlews, Utah, Western Kingbirds|Tags: adult, courtship display, curlew, curlews, display, displaying, flycatcher, flycatchers, kingbird, kingbirds, Long-billed Curlew, male, Numenius americanus, portrait, shorebirds, Tyrannus verticalis, Western Kingbird|

Yesterday morning I had Western Kingbirds and Long-billed Curlews in my viewfinder on Antelope Island State Park.

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