{"id":14256,"date":"2014-02-08T06:20:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T13:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=14256"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:11:39","slug":"a-song-dog-and-a-sun-dog-on-the-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/02\/08\/a-song-dog-and-a-sun-dog-on-the-same-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Dog And A Sun Dog On The Same Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SunSun Dog in the sky<\/span><\/p>\n

Two days ago I posted some images of a lone Coyote on the shore of the Great Salt Lake<\/span><\/a> and I had forgotten the Coyote wasn’t the only “dog” I photographed that day. I hadn’t uploaded the images from my back up camera and I remembered to do that this morning and realized that I had photographed a “Sun Dog” and a “Song Dog” on the same day.<\/p>\n

I don’t see Sun Dogs<\/span><\/a> all that often in the warmer months; though they do occur all year long, but I do see them quite often during the winter and when I can I like to take images of them.<\/p>\n

This particular Sun Dog was nearly a complete circle and if the sun had been a bit higher in the sky when it formed it would have been a full\u00a0halo around the winter sun. The Wasatch Mountains are at the bottom of the frame and I photographed the Sun Dog on the east side of Antelope Island.<\/p>\n

Folk lore suggests that when a Sun Dog appears there is bad weather ahead. There were some clouds in the valley but the forecasted snow never fell where I live.<\/p>\n

\"SongSong Dog in the snow<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier that morning I also photographed this “Song Dog” as it hunted for prey along the Great Salt Lake.<\/p>\n

It isn’t often I am given the opportunity to photograph a Sun Dog and a Song Dog on the very same day.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to view more of my Coyote photos plus facts and information about this species. Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Miscellaneous photos which are basically images that I have taken that just do not fit into one specific category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t see Sun Dogs all that often in the warmer months; though they do occur all year long, but I do see them quite often during the winter and when I can I like to take images of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,100,26,7641],"tags":[4004,431,733,4002,2459,7638,2458,2457,4111,7640],"class_list":["post-14256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-coyotes","category-utah","category-weather-phenomena","tag-adult","tag-antelope-island-causeway","tag-canis-latrans","tag-coyote","tag-halo-around-the-sun","tag-optical-phenomena","tag-parhelion","tag-sun-dog","tag-weather","tag-weather-phenomena"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sun-dog-feb-5-mia-mcpherson-7603.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-3HW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108923,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/12\/21\/happy-winter-solstice-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":14256,"position":0},"title":"Happy Winter Solstice 2022","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"December 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Winter Solstice! 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