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Cooper’s Hawk – Nearly Hidden And In Plain Sight

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-17T04:56:08-05:00March 17th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Cooper’s Hawks, Morgan County, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: accipiter, Accipiter cooperii, Accipiters, autumn, branches, canyon, Cooper’s Hawk, cryptic plumage, distance, fall, fence, First Spring, hatch year, hawk, hawks, hidden, immature, Morgan County, mountains, perched, plain, raptors, resting, Salt Lake County, sight, tree, trees, urban, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, winter, wooden fence, woodlands, young|

Two days ago, while I was photographing some Rock Squirrels, I saw a beautiful immature Cooper's Hawk fly in and land in a tangle of trees near the squirrels.

A Tragic Sight To See – A Barn Owl Caught on Barb Wire

By Mia McPherson|2023-04-25T09:58:58-05:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Barn Owls, Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana|Tags: adult, barb wire, barbed wire, Barn Owl, birds, birds of prey, fence, hung up, injured, owl, owls, rescue, rescued, sight, tragic, Tyto alba|

Yesterday morning I saw a sight that made me ill to see and that is a Barn Owl hung up on a barb wire fence on the south side of the Centennial Valley.