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Poppies, Birds, Trees, Butterflies And A Smoky Haze

By Mia McPherson|2023-08-18T12:13:26-05:00August 5th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Red-tailed Hawks, Tooele County, Trees, Utah, Weidemeyer's Admiral Butterflies, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: Abies concolor, admiral, admirals, adult, Argemone munita, birds of prey, bloom, blooming, branch, Buteo jamaicensis, butterflies, butterfly, cone, cones, creek, dawn, desert, Douglas fir, fir, firs, flowering, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, juvenile, Limenitis weidemeyerii, mountains, native, poppies, poppy, Prickly Poppy, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca, puddling, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir, sky, sky island mountains, smoky, smoky haze, summer, tree, trees, Weidemeyer's Admiral, White Fir, white wildflowers, wildflowers, young|

The first time I raised my lens yesterday morning it was for blooming Prickly Poppies that were along the shoulder of the bumpy gravel road.

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Weidemeyer’s Admiral Butterflies In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2023-08-19T03:33:07-05:00June 22nd, 2020|Categories: Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Weidemeyer's Admiral Butterflies, Wildlife|Tags: adult, butterflies, butterfly, canyon, Gambel Oak, gravel road, leaf, leaves, Limenitis weidemeyerii, mountains, puddling, resting, tree, Weidemeyer's Admiral, Weidemeyer's Admiral Butterfly|

Last week I was able to photograph Weidemeyer's Admiral butterflies up in the Wasatch Mountains on two consecutive days and the butterflies had me all aflutter.

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