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Common Loon: The 2025 ABA Bird of the Year

By Mia McPherson|January 3rd, 2025|Categories: Common Loons, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: ABA Bird of the Year, adult, close up, Common Loon, Gavia immer, loon, loons, migrating, migration, over, park, pond, portrait, Salt Lake County, spring, stopping, urban, Utah, water, waterbirds, Willow Pond|

Yesterday, the American Birding Association announced that the Common Loon is the 2025 ABA Bird of the Year, and I was so excited. I love these striking loons!

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Looking Back: Common Loon Photos from Spring 2023

By Mia McPherson|April 7th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Common Loons, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, breeding plumage, Common Loon, Gavia immer, loon, loons, migration, over, park, pond, spring, stopping, urban, water, waterbirds|

It has been a year since I was surprised and delighted to be able to take tons of Common Loon photos at a pond close to where I live in Salt Lake County.

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Red-tailed Hawk Nesting Season Has Begun!

By Mia McPherson|March 28th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, birds of prey, breeding season, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, cliff, cliff face, female, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, leaping, lichen, lichen covered, lift off, lifting off, male, mated pair, mates, mating, mating season, nest, nesting, nesting season, over, pair, raptors, red tail, Red-tailed Hawk, rocks, rousing, starling|

The female Red-tailed Hawk blended into the lichen covered cliff face so well that even with my sharp eyesight I didn't see her until the male landed next to her.

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Royal Tern Over

By Mia McPherson|May 14th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Royal Terns|Tags: bird photography, coastal island, flight, flying, Gulf Coast, over, Pinellas County, Royal Tern, summer, tern, terns, Thalasseus maximus, turn, upside down|

Royals Terns make amazing dive bombs for their prey which are usually small baitfish running close to the surface and sometimes if you are lucky you get to see them "Tern Over" in mid air.

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