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Mule Deer Doe & May Snow In The Stansbury Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-10T05:26:08-05:00May 2nd, 2019|Categories: Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: cold, deer, deers, desert, doe, female, juniper, juniper-pinyon communities, junipers, Juniperus osteosperma, May, Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus, sky island mountains, snow, spring, Utah Juniper, weather|

My best photo of the morning was a Mule Deer doe in a stand of junipers and even then a cloud blocked the beautiful light. Yes, that is snow on the junipers, on May 1st!

Chipping Sparrow, Mourning Dove and Changing Views

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-07T05:41:04-06:00May 11th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Chipping Sparrows, Mourning Doves, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, canyons, Chipping Sparrow, chopped down, dove, doves, explored, fence post, juniper, juniper-pinyon communities, junipers, mountains, Mourning Dove, nesting, perched, post, singing, sparrow, sparrows, Spizella passerina, Utah Juniper, wooden post, Zenaida macroura|

I couldn't resist photographing this tiny Chipping Sparrow singing while perched on a "cedar" fence post with the sky and dark juniper behind it.