{"id":105465,"date":"2021-12-26T05:54:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=105465"},"modified":"2021-12-26T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T13:02:08","slug":"avian-potpourri-from-my-last-trip-to-bear-river-mbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/26\/avian-potpourri-from-my-last-trip-to-bear-river-mbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian Potpourri From My Last Trip To Bear River MBR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Including a bird whose ID I’m not quite sure of.<\/p>\n

Each of these photos was taken five days ago at Bear River MBR. Thankfully, the fog that has been a problem up there recently mostly stayed away that morning.<\/p>\n

I have other photos taken that morning that strike my fancy more than these do and I will publish and have been publishing those photos in separate posts. So these photos are sort of “second tier” but collectively they’re a reasonable representation of some of the birds we’re seeing in northern Utah right now and at least some of them are interesting in their own right.<\/p>\n

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A female American Kestrel on a sign who gave me about two seconds with her before she vamoosed. I got about a half dozen shots of her but this is the only one with light on her face and in her eye.<\/p>\n

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An adult male Common Goldeneye in a rush because he felt a little trapped by ice out of frame up top that kept him uncomfortably close to my pickup. That’s a feather floating on the water in the backgound.<\/p>\n

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A lone American White Pelican that forgot to head south for the winter. I worry about this bird and a few others that have been reported to be still here in other areas of northern Utah.<\/p>\n

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At least ‘he’ has this merganser for company.<\/p>\n

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I believe this is a female Redhead but I’m just not quite sure. She was alone so there were no males nearby to help confirm her ID.<\/p>\n

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A pair of Common Ravens mercilessly harassing a Rough-legged Hawk. In an effort to escape their attacks the hawk dived down and landed on the snow but…<\/p>\n

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the ravens were relentless and followed the hawk. They landed right next to him and got into his face. They were far away from me and mostly had their backs to me so after I took a few photos of them I let them duke it out in private.<\/p>\n

It was nice to find a few birds again that morning and have the fog mostly cooperate. On some recent trips to the refuge I’ve been skunked, or nearly so.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Including a bird whose ID I’m not quite sure of.<\/p>\n

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