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Great Blue Heron With Some White Feathers In Its Dark Crown

By Mia McPherson|October 10th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Blue Herons, Leucistic, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, crown, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, leucism, leucistic, marhs, molt, strange crown, wading birds, wetlands, white feathers|

The unusually colored feathers of this Great Blue Heron that I photographed on September 24th of this year caught my eyes because it has some white feathers in its crown where normally all the feathers are dark black.

Western Grebe about to submerge

By Mia McPherson|May 30th, 2014|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Western Grebes|Tags: adult, Aechmophorus occidentalis, grebe, grebes, marhs, spring, submerge, submersion, Western Grebe, wetlands|

I often try to capture the eye of a bird diving into the water at the moment just before the eye submerges below the surface. I was able to succeed with the Western Grebe.