territorial dispute

Photographing Drake Common Goldeneyes In A Territorial Dispute

By Mia McPherson|2022-02-01T05:35:33-06:00January 14th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Common Goldeneyes, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, bow wave, Bucephala clangula, chase, chased, Common Goldeneye, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, end, goldeneye, goldeneyes, male, photograph, photographing, pond, running, skidding, sliding, surface, territorial dispute, urban, victory, water, wing flap, winter|

Yesterday afternoon I was thrilled to be able to photograph two adult drake Common Goldeneyes in a territorial dispute on a pond as they moved across my field of view.

Brief But Aggressive Encounter Between Pied-Billed Grebes

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-10T04:22:07-05:00December 18th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Pied-billed Grebes, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: aggressive, Agonistic Behavior, behavior, bill, fight, fighting, grebe, grebes, neck, nonbreeding, Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, pond, territorial behavior, territorial dispute, water, winter|

This aggressive encounter between the two Pied-billed Grebes only lasted a few seconds and if I hadn't been paying attention I would have missed photographing it.