Mountain Bluebird Photos

Photography by Terry Sohl

My Favorite: Mountain Bluebirds have got to be one of the most drop-dead gorgeous songbirds in North America. That unique sky-blue plumage just always pops from the surrounding landscape when you see one. Alas, it's typically a 5-hour drive from our part of eastern South Dakota before we can reasonably expect to see one, although we did have one quite lost bird that was found just a mile from our house in 2020! But we see them every time we visit the Black Hills. That includes my favorite Mountain Bluebird photo below, taken on a family vacation when we were staying in a cabin near Pringle, South Dakota in June of 2020.

Mountain Bluebird 1 May 25th, 2008 Custer State Park, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 2 May 25th, 2008 Custer State Park, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 3 May 25th, 2008 Custer State Park, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 4 July 23rd, 2011 North Cave Hills, South Dakota
Mountain Bluebird 5 July 23rd, 2011 North Cave Hills, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 6 July 23rd, 2011 North Cave Hills, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 7 July 23rd, 2011 North Cave Hills, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 8 September 1st, 2018 Custer State Park, South Dakota
Mountain Bluebird 9 July 13th, 2019 Roby Canyon, Black Hills, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 10 July 13th, 2019 Roby Canyon, Black Hills, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 11 June 24th, 2020 Near Pringle, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 12 June 24th, 2020 Near Pringle, South Dakota
Mountain Bluebird 13 June 24th, 2020 Near Pringle, South Dakota	Mountain Bluebird 14 May 14th, 2016 Near LaCreek National Wildlife Refuge, South Dakota

Click here for the species description page for the Mountain Bluebird.

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