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Nesting Mountain Bluebirds And Other Woodland Birds

By Mia McPherson|April 30th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Chipping Sparrows, Mountain Bluebirds, Northern House Wrens, Yellow-rumped Warblers|Tags: adult, aspen, bird finding tip, bluebird, bluebirds, branch, breeding plumage, breeding season, canyon, Chipping Sparrow, clod, close up, dirt, forest, forest edge, gathering, instincts, looking up, male, mate, Mountain Bluebird, mountains, nesting cavity, nesting materials, Northern House Wren, perched, photographic rut, portrait, regal, road, Setophaga coronata, shadow, Sialia currucoides, singing, sparrow, sparrows, Spizella passerina, spring, thrushes, trees, Troglodytes aedon, warbler, warblers, wren, wrens, Yellow-rumped Warbler|

Yesterday I had a blast photographing a pair of Mountain Bluebirds at a natural nesting cavity at the edge of a forest along with some other woodland birds.

Immature Red-tailed Hawk Looking At The Rising Sun – Plus a New Personal Challenge

By Mia McPherson|November 3rd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Red-tailed Hawks, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, hawk, hawks, immature, lighting conditions, mountains, perched, photographic rut, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, rising sun, shadows, stump|

I photographed this immature Red-tailed Hawk while in a canyon going up into the Stansbury Mountains as the bird looked into the rising sun.