pellet expulsion

More Fun with Burrowing Owls and the Dangers of Barbed Wire

By |2016-12-07T12:07:36-07:00June 25th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Burrowing Owls, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I spent yesterday morning photographing Burrowing Owls in northern Utah again and while most of it was fun there was something I found that broke my heart.

Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk expelling a pellet

By |2021-03-31T17:17:03-06:00March 10th, 2013|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Swainson's Hawks|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Last summer I was able to see and photograph a juvenile Swainson's Hawk expelling a pellet in Beaverhead County, Montana.

Northern Harrier expelling a pellet

By |2016-12-07T12:14:58-07:00December 29th, 2010|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

This Northern Harrier took about a minute to expel the pellet and I filled my buffer several times trying to catch all the action. The harrier appeared to be concentrating so hard on regurgitating the pellet that it nearly fell off of the fence.

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