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Juvenile Osprey with a Tiger Trout in the Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2023-11-13T03:10:35-06:00September 10th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Little Dutch Hollow, Morgan County, Ospreys, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: balance, Brown Trout x Brook Trout, canyon, female, Fish Hawk, flapping, full crop, immature, juvenile, mountains, Osprey, ospreys, Pandion haliaetus, prey, Salmo trutta × Salvelinus fontinalis, sterile hybrid, Tiger Trout, wings, young|

Yesterday the "unexpected" bird was a juvenile Osprey in the Wasatch Mountains. I'd say it was unexpected because I'd been photographing songbirds and wasn't expecting to see North America's "Fish Hawk" in the same area.

Adult Red-tailed Hawk with an Ant

By Mia McPherson|2022-10-04T07:13:31-05:00September 4th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Montana, Red-tailed Hawks|Tags: adult, ant, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, close up, crop, full crop, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Montana, perched, portrait, raptors, red tail hawk, Red-tailed Hawk|

At the time I created this image I didn't realize that when I took this portrait of the adult Red-tailed Hawk that I also photographed an ant. Can you see it?