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Education Magpie Envy
If you live in the eastern portion of the US and have never seen a magpie–Salt Lake City is the place for you. Those birds are all over the place–they’re like crows (not just in family but in...
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Homemade Heron Rookery
I love this little male kestrel snacking on a small rodent it plucked from a field in Utah. I got its photo at the same place I had my unexpected weasel encounter called Farmington Bay WMA. One of the...
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Random American Avocet
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Cliff Swallow Nesting Area
If you ever have a chance to visit the great state of Utah, I highly recommend checking out Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. This place is awesome, there’s an easy birding drive to take and you can...
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Artificial Heron Rookery
Not long after the North Mississipppi heron rookery was destroyed, there was talk of building an artificial rookery to get them to come back. Now that the herons seemed to have settled on other...
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Grebes of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
Going through spring photos and I’ve found a ton from Utah. I love Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and try to make some time for it every time I’m in Utah–great birding by car and opportunities for...
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Random Northern Harrier
Some forgotten photos from my May trip to Utah. This was a male northern harrier hunting around Antelope Island: One of the few North American raptors you can tell the difference between male and...
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Bison & Lazuli Buntings
For some reason, buntings are a hard bird for me to get. Both painted buntings and lazuli buntings were always fluttering out of sight just before I would arrive to see one. A common phrase, “Oh a...
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Pelican Yawn
If you’re a fish or crawfish, this is a terrifying site. Especially because American white pelicans will cooperatively hunt fish in the water. Copyright © October 10, 2011 by Sharon Stiteler the...
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Golden Eagle vs Chukar
I can’t believe I forgot about these photos. While cleaning out my iPhoto cache today I came across a picture of a chukar at Antelope Island in Utah. Okay, so it’s a very mediocre photo of a chukar....
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