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Wintry Wasatch Mountain Peaks

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-11T04:50:34-06:00January 11th, 2024|Categories: Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: cloudy, cloudy sky, gray, mountain, mountains, peaks, range, slopes, snow, snow covered, snowy, trees, Wasatch Mountains, winter, wintry|

Yesterday afternoon, I drove down to my local pond, hoping that I could see the snowy Wasatch Mountain peaks through the clouds. This was about the best view I got.

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Cloudy And Gray Winter Solstice

By Mia McPherson|2022-12-22T05:00:28-06:00December 22nd, 2022|Categories: Birds, California Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: California Gull, clouds, cloudy, flock, gray, gull, gulls, ice, Larus californicus, low light, mountains, nonbreeding plumage, peaks, pond, resting, sky, snow, urban, Wasatch Mountain Range, Wasatch Mountains, water, winter, Winter Solstice|

My Winter Solstice was cloudy and gray. I wandered down to my local pond to take in my first day of winter views of the Wasatch Mountains plus a few birds.

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Colors Of Nature – Juvenile Yellow Warblers

By Mia McPherson|2023-03-26T06:50:40-05:00December 19th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: begging, Blue Elderberry, calling, canyon, colors of nature, gray, Illuminating, juvenile, mountains, Pantone 2021 Colors, Sambucus cerulea, Setophaga petechia, Ultimate Gray, warbler, warblers, willow, willows, yellow, Yellow Warbler, young|

It tickles me that Pantone® picked these colors this year and once again I am reminded how the colors we see in nature brighten and add inspiration to our lives.

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West Desert Juniper Titmouse Feeding On Juniper Berry Seeds

By Mia McPherson|2023-11-12T05:03:07-06:00November 27th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Juniper Titmouses, Simpson Springs, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Baeolophus ridgwayi, berry, bill, bird names, cone, desert, drab, eating, feeding behavior, gray, juniper, Juniper Titmouse, junipers, Juniperus osteosperma, nemesis, perched, plain, plural, seed, singular, titmice, titmouse, titmouses, Utah Juniper|

Because I have spent so much time out in the West Desert lately I have seen and heard quite a few Juniper Titmice moving through the junipers that dot the slopes of the mountains and foothills.

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Angry Looking Redhead Drake

By Mia McPherson|2023-12-17T06:45:45-06:00January 18th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Redheads, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: angry, Aythya americana, cloudy, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, eating, gray, low light, male, park, pond, Redhead, snow, snow storm, storm, urban, vegetation, water, waterfowl|

This Redhead isn't "angry" at all but it does look angry to my eyes and this morning I'm feeling about as angry as this duck looks. I'll explain but first I have to give a bit more information about how my mornings start.

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