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Nine photos of eight species.<\/p>\n

It was only ten days ago that I published my last “Some Recent Birds” post but I have enough new photos that I like well enough to publish another one so I decided to go for it. As usual, these are recent photos that I don’t think warrant standalone status on my blog but for one reason or another I believe each of them is good enough or interesting enough, or both, to be shared.<\/p>\n

All of them were taken within the last 11 days at Bear River MBR or in a remote area of Box Elder County.<\/p>\n

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A Great Blue Heron fishing in typical habitat for the species.<\/p>\n

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This is my old friend, the male dark morph Red-tailed Hawk that I documented mating with his mate<\/a><\/span><\/span> early this spring. This year the two of them nested in a very difficult location for photography so I don’t know how successful they were but I did see at least one chick in the nest one time. When I took this photo he was high above me on a vertical cliff but it was definitely good to see him again.<\/p>\n

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This Willet, the male I believe, was perched here as his apparent mate was calling in flight from some distance away. He took off and joined her in flight for a few seconds before both of them returned and landed on the same rock pile.<\/p>\n

This shot was taken immediately after he landed. As is typical for the species, he held his wings up for a few seconds after he landed. In this case he was also calling, apparently to his nearby mate.<\/p>\n

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A not very sharp Rock Wren with nesting material in its bill. This bird popped up unexpectedly while I was photographing the Willets. When I zoomed in on the nesting material it appeared to be mammal hair – probably cow hair that had been snagged on a nearby fence. The wren and the Willets were…<\/p>\n

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obviously comfortable in each other’s presence.<\/p>\n

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A male Yellow-headed Blackbird giving me the over the shoulder look.<\/p>\n

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A Turkey Vulture beginning to turn on its leaning old fence post perch.<\/p>\n

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Three ducklings on a temporary “pond” that owes its existence to our wet spring. There were no adult ducks nearby and the only other duck on the entire pond was a male Northern Shoveler. So maybe the ducklings are shovelers? I dunno, to me most ducklings look like Mallards.<\/p>\n

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A Forster’s Tern beginning to dive on a fish. I like this shot quite a lot, even though it’s been cropped significantly and the composition is a little wonky because I didn’t have any more room at the bottom of the frame.<\/p>\n

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I’ll close by reporting that by last evening much of my garden looked a helluva lot better than it did the day before, after the devastating hailstorm<\/a><\/span>. I may have BLTs with garden tomatoes this summer after all.<\/p>\n

Life is good again. Mostly. Until the next hailstorm.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Nine photos of eight species.<\/p>\n

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