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Male Western Tanager Close Up Image

By |2021-05-29T06:35:00-06:00May 29th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Western Tanagers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Two days ago I had the opportunity to photograph a male Western Tanager up close in the foothills of some of the sky island mountains in the West Desert of Utah.

Eurasian Collared-Doves

By |2021-11-01T05:57:11-06:00November 15th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Eurasian Collared-Doves, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

When I first moved to Utah in 2009 I saw very few Eurasian Collared-Doves but now I see them in many locations and sometimes in large numbers.

Fledgling Mountain Bluebird In Montana

By |2021-03-27T05:49:49-06:00April 12th, 2019|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Mountain Bluebirds|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I dug through my older files and found this photo of a fledgling Mountain Bluebird perched on a wire fence that I photographed in July of 2017 up in Montana's Centennial Valley.

Mountain Bluebird Plumage Development Stages

By |2022-04-19T04:36:07-06:00March 24th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Clark County, Idaho, Montana, Mountain Bluebirds, Targhee National Forest, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

These images from different times of the year show Mountain Bluebird plumage development stages from not long after fledging to adulthood.

The juvenile Swainson’s Hawk that saved my day

By |2021-03-31T16:39:47-06:00September 17th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Swainson's Hawks, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday was frustrating for me near Snowville, Utah because there were raptors all around but not many of them were close enough to photograph and the ones that were close were either vey skittish or wouldn't fly off of the power poles even after long periods of time.

White-crowned Sparrow on a rusty wire fence

By |2016-12-07T12:10:46-07:00September 14th, 2013|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, White-crowned Sparrows|Tags: , , , , , , |

In the Centennial Valley of Montana at this time of the year I see plenty of White-crowned Sparrows of the interior west sub-species and although most of them that I see are juveniles there are also adults hanging around foraging too.

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