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Bison bull with Promontory point in the background<\/span><\/p>\n It has been a slow week bird-wise but never the less I’ve been out taking images of birds and mammals such as this grazing Bison bull near the Visitor Center on Antelope Island State Park with the Great Salt Lake and Promontory Point in the background.<\/p>\n Then finding a Great Horned Owl in an unusual and unexpected location near a bridge on the cause way to Antelope Island State Park. There are some Rabbitbrush nearby, plenty of boulders and mud flats. I thought it was just a fluke and that the owl would quickly move on but I spotted the owl in that location again two days ago. This is a terrible image and I hope to get the owl in better light if it does stick around.<\/p>\n I think this Coyote was just urinating as it stopped in front of the pickup but I am not sure why it was baring its teeth in this frame at all.<\/p>\n The sweet calls of Horned Larks have been delighting me out on Antelope Island and in the west desert, this male was shaking its feathers after a very brief preening session.<\/p>\n This is a young Pronghorn that came so close to the “mobile blind” two days ago that I opted to just do portraits of them as they chewed on some vegetation.<\/p>\n There are several wild Rose bushes along the gravel roads at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area and at this time of the year I always hope to find sparrows perched on them because of the red rosehips, this image didn’t have the rose hips visible but I like the alert pose of the adult White-crowned Sparrow, the laciness of the leaves and the smooth background.<\/p>\n Just a few images from this past week.<\/p>\n Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n Mia<\/p>\n Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my bird photos and here<\/span><\/a> for my mammal images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just a few images from this past week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150883,"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":[443,511,27,100,1022,697,209,436,183,26,356],"tags":[4004,4463,4096,2653,4083,4203,4184,4350,4314,733,4002,4181,4108,1327,6433,2136,4035,3967,294,185,4020,4063,855,4195,4327,4032,4193,4256],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bison","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-coyotes","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-great-horned-owls","category-horned-larks","category-pronghorn","category-utah","category-white-crowned-sparrows","tag-adult","tag-american-bison","tag-antilocapra-americana","tag-bird-of-prey","tag-birding","tag-bubo-virginianus","tag-buck","tag-buffalo","tag-bull","tag-canis-latrans","tag-coyote","tag-eremophila-alpestris","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-horned-lark","tag-lark","tag-larks-2","tag-nature-photography","tag-owl","tag-owls","tag-pronghorn","tag-pronghorn-antelope","tag-raptor","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-white-crowned-sparrow","tag-wildlife-photography","tag-young","tag-zonotrichia-leucophrys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/white-crowned-sparrow-adult-mia-mcpherson-6965.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-1Hg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4621,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/03\/13\/feathers-fur\/","url_meta":{"origin":6526,"position":0},"title":"Feathers & Fur","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"March 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I thought I would post a few images taken this past week from Antelope Island State Park and the west desert in Tooele County. 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Am I talking about perches that are man-made and ugly? 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<\/a>Great Horned Owl<\/span><\/p>\nCoyote taking a whiz<\/span><\/p>\nMale Horned Lark fluffing up his feathers<\/span><\/p>\nYoung Pronghorn chewing on food<\/span><\/p>\nAdult White-crowned Sparrow on a wild Rose<\/span><\/p>\n