{"id":82451,"date":"2021-03-27T05:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T11:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=82451"},"modified":"2025-05-19T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:42:00","slug":"mountain-bluebird-on-the-aquarius-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/03\/27\/mountain-bluebird-on-the-aquarius-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bluebird On The Aquarius Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MaleMale Mountain Bluebird on the Aquarius Plateau \u2013 Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/1600, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought this male Mountain Bluebird photographed on the Aquarius Plateau<\/span><\/a> in Wayne County, Utah positively glowed in the early morning light. I found him near a Greater Sage-Grouse Lek on a wind-swept sagebrush steppe almost exactly six years ago today.<\/p>\n

The last couple of times I have been out in the field I’ve spotted Mountain Bluebirds on the wing near locations where I have seen them nesting in previous years. Sometimes all I see is a flash of blue and they are gone, sometimes I just hear their soft flight calls<\/span><\/a>. Each and every encounter with these beautiful blue birds makes me smile.<\/p>\n

Mountain Bluebirds here in northern Utah will be looking for nesting cavities\u00a0 or man made nest boxes soon if they aren’t already searching for them.<\/p>\n

On the wing, perched on a fence post, or foraging on the ground, Mountain Bluebirds add a splash of color wherever I find them.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Mountain Bluebird photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought this male Mountain Bluebird photographed on the Aquarius Plateau in Wayne County, Utah positively glowed in the early morning light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,3427,1369,26,2486],"tags":[4004,6957,4430,5933,4880,6402,3830,11239,4062,228,4104,2660,4339,2727,165,3844,4881,11238],"class_list":["post-82451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-dixie-national-forest","category-mountain-bluebirds","category-utah","category-wayne-county","tag-adult","tag-aquarius-plateau","tag-barbed-wire","tag-bluebird","tag-bluebirds","tag-early-spring","tag-fence","tag-glowed","tag-male","tag-mountain-bluebird","tag-perched","tag-sagebrush-steppe","tag-sialia-currucoides","tag-song-bird","tag-spring","tag-thrush","tag-thrushes","tag-wind-swept"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t