{"id":96239,"date":"2021-10-14T06:47:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T12:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=96239"},"modified":"2021-10-14T06:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T12:47:43","slug":"snow-dusted-views-of-utahs-west-desert-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/10\/14\/snow-dusted-views-of-utahs-west-desert-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Dusted Views Of Utah’s West Desert Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DustingDusting of snow on Utah’s West Desert mountains – Samsung cell phone photo
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I saw snow on Utah’s West Desert mountains for the first time since late spring so I thought I’d share a few views of what I saw while out there yesterday morning. It was a visual delight to see a dusting of snow on the peaks, trees, ground, and shrubs. The sky was a clear, bright blue with a few thin clouds scattered here and there. In fact the sky was so clear that I almost forgot how smoky it had been for months and months due our western wildfires.<\/p>\n

\"SnowySnowy scene in Utah’s West Desert mountains – Samsung cell phone photo<\/span><\/p>\n

I sent this image to one of my oldest and dearest friends yesterday and his reply was “God this picture is beautiful!” and I thought so too so now this image is my cell phone wall paper and lock screen. I change those out about once a month using landscape photos I have taken in Utah to remind me of the beauty I see when I can’t get out into the field.<\/p>\n

\"WestWest Desert mountains after an autumn snow fall – Samsung cell phone photo<\/span><\/p>\n

And I do see the stunning beauty of my adopted state of Utah whenever I go out into the field. I try not to take the views I see for granted even though when I am in the field my primary goal is to find birds in my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

There weren’t many birds around yesterday but I did find an American Robin perched on a juniper. I found and heard several Townsend’s Solitaires and photographed one. I spotted long distance hawks, quite a few White-crowned Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos plus a late migrating flycatcher whose identity I have yet to determine. I also heard but never saw what sounded like a flock of Clark’s Nutcrackers.<\/p>\n

\"DouglasDouglas Fir cone with snow and ice – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/4000, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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What I didn’t hear and had expected to tickle my ear drums was the calls of Red-breasted Nuthatches that I thought would be feeding on the seeds of the Douglas Firs<\/span><\/a>. In the field I was a bit alarmed that I didn’t hear them. Once I got back home and looked at the photos I had taken of the Douglas Fir cones I realized that the fir cones there have not opened enough yet for the nuthatches to tug the seeds out.<\/p>\n

All is good, the cones will open soon and I should hear the nuthatches in the area. That is if the gates don’t close before then.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

P.S., I saw a low of 29\u00b0F yesterday morning, the lowest temp I have seen so far this fall.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my photos of Utah’s West Desert. Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my flower, shrub and tree photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw snow on Utah’s West Desert mountains for the first time since late spring so I thought I’d share a few views of what I saw while out there yesterday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96224,"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":[358,5345,26,1314],"tags":[10502,970,3940,7708,6879,6877,12463,4620,8009,6909,4064,3914,4674,2691,6151,4069,6910,6878,4289,4921,4470,2817,4057,4018,4050,4328,4427,4076,2690,909,12307,10501],"class_list":["post-96239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tooele-county","category-trees","category-utah","category-west-desert-utah","tag-abies-concolor","tag-autumn","tag-canyon","tag-cone","tag-cones","tag-douglas-fir","tag-dusted","tag-fall","tag-fir","tag-firs","tag-ice","tag-juniper","tag-junipers","tag-juniperus-osteosperma","tag-landscape","tag-mountains","tag-peaks","tag-pseudotsuga-menziesii","tag-rabbitbrush","tag-rock","tag-rocks","tag-sage","tag-sagebrush","tag-sky","tag-snow","tag-snowy","tag-tree","tag-trees","tag-utah-juniper","tag-views","tag-water-droplet","tag-white-fir"],"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