adult plumage – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Subadult Peregrine Falcon

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-24T05:52:59-05:00May 24th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Peregrine Falcons, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult plumage, birds of prey, calling, desert, Falco peregrinus, falcon, falcons, fence post, First Spring, flight, flying, foothills, immature, juvenal plumage, lift off, lifting off, molt, molting, Peregrine Falcon, raptors, second year bird, sky, spring, sub-adult, subadult, take off, taking off, wooden post, young|

Last week before I found the Rock Wren I wrote about I also found a subadult Peregrine Falcon perched on a wooden post in the West Desert.

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Male Spotted Towhees – One Immature And One Adult

By Mia McPherson|2024-04-05T03:45:44-05:00September 14th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Spotted Towhees, Utah|Tags: adult, adult plumage, colorful, desert, Fragrant Sumac, hatch year, immature, male, molt, molting, Pipilo maculatus, raggedy, ranchlands, Rhus aromatica, seep, smoke, smoky, sparrow, sparrows, Spotted Towhee, sumac, summer, towhee, towhees, young|

Spotted Towhees are among the most colorful members of the sparrow family and I always enjoy photographing them on those occasions when they are out in the open.

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Update On The Short-eared Owl That I Helped To Rescue

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-04T13:28:12-05:00September 7th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Short-eared Owls, Utah|Tags: adult, adult plumage, Asio flammeus, chicks, fledgling, Hawkwatch International, juvenile, male, rehabilitation, rescue, rescued, Short-eared Owl, Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah|

I can now give another update on the Short-eared Owl, he will be going to Hawkwatch International in October to be used as an educational bird!

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Friday Photos – Long-billed Curlews

By Mia McPherson|2016-12-07T12:14:35-06:00July 1st, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Long-billed Curlews, Utah|Tags: adult, adult plumage, bird photography, boulder, chick, curlews, flight, flying, foraging, immature, juvenile, landing, Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, shorebirds, wing lift|

The juvenile Long-billed Curlew was foraging and preening in the vegetation on the ground below the adult perched on the boulder

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