blue – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Young Bald Eagle Looking Fierce

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-06T03:17:09-06:00February 28th, 2023|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: Bald Eagle, blue, desert, eagle, eagles, Eagles of Utah, fierce, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, looking, perched, pole, power pole, ranchlands, raptors, sky, subadult, winter, young|

Today I'm sharing a photo of a young Bald Eagle who was looking mighty fierce while perched on a power pole that I took last February on a very cold morning.

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Female American Kestrel Get Off My Lawn Look

By Mia McPherson|2023-02-12T08:09:44-06:00February 12th, 2023|Categories: American Kestrels, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Kestrel, blue, branches, Falco sparverius, falcon, falcons, female, Get Off My Lawn, kestrel, kestrels, look, marsh, perched, sky, wetlands, winter|

When I viewed this American Kestrel photo my first thought was if this isn't a "get off my lawn look" then I have never seen a get off my lawn look from anyone.

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The European Starling: A Tale of Two Continents

By Mia McPherson|2023-02-10T07:11:25-06:00February 10th, 2023|Categories: Birds, European Starlings, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, blue, crabapple, decline, European Starling, introduced, Malus, native habitat, nonnative, park, perched, sky, starling, starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, urban, winter|

Three days ago, I took this photo of a European Starling perched on top of a crabapple tree with a brilliant blue winter sky in the background at a city park.

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Male American Goldfinch Perched Above A Creek

By Mia McPherson|2022-06-24T04:47:17-05:00June 24th, 2022|Categories: American Goldfinches, Birds, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, American Goldfinch, blue, breeding plumage, canyon, finch, finches, goldfinch, goldfinches, male, mountains, perched, sky, small in frame, Spinus tristis, spring|

Today I am keeping my post short and simple with a male American Goldfinch in his breeding plumage perched high above a Wasatch Mountain creek.

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Male Yellow Warbler Photos

By Mia McPherson|2022-06-21T03:55:41-05:00June 21st, 2022|Categories: Birds, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: blue, bright, canyon, food, male, mountains, peering, perched, riparian habitat, Setophaga petechia, sining, sky, spring, Summer Solstice, Summit County, Utah, warbler, warblers, Wasatch Mountains, willow, willow thicket, willows, wood-warbler, wood-warblers, Yellow Warbler, young|

Last week while up in the mountains on two separate mornings I was able to take some adult male Yellow Warbler photos at the same willow thicket.

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Springtime Rock Wren Photos

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-11T05:26:20-05:00April 11th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Rock Wrens, Utah|Tags: adult, blue, Box Elder County, clear, cliff, desert, desert habitat, lichen, lichen covered, lichens, nesting materials, perched, rock, Rock Wren, rocks, Salpinctes obsoletus, sky, spring, staring, Utah, wren, wrens|

Any time I have a Rock Wren in my viewfinder is a good day for me. Yesterday was an especially good day because I had two nesting adult Rock Wrens to focus on.

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Snowy Egret Blues

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-24T05:26:55-05:00September 24th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, blue, blue water, calling, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, light, marsh, morning, preening, shoreline, Snowy Egret, summer, wading birds, water, wetlands|

I liked these Snowy Egret photos because of the contrast of the bird's stark white plumage against the deep blue of the sky reflected on the water.

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Crouching Sage Thrasher

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-05T04:50:35-06:00June 27th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Sage Thrashers, Utah|Tags: adult, blue, crouched, crouching, desert, metal post, Mountain Mockingbirds, Oreoscoptes montanus, pandemic, sad, Sage Thrasher, thrasher, thrashers|

I hoped the Sage Thrasher would come closer so that I could photograph it and just about the time the Short-eared Owl lifted off the thrasher popped up on a nearby metal post.

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Uinta Ground Squirrels With Blue, Green And Gold Backgrounds

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-18T15:13:06-05:00May 12th, 2020|Categories: Summit County, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, background, blue, canyon, color, gold, grass, grasses, green, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, leafless, mountains, shaded, squirrel, squirrels, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus, willows|

Early this month I was able to create this golden background by having leafless willows that line the creek below the road behind the Uinta Ground Squirrel when I photographed it.

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I Spotted My First of Season Common Merganser

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-13T07:41:27-05:00November 24th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, blue, Common Merganser, diving ducks, duck, ducks, fall, female, first of season, hen, icy, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, pond, range, sea ducks, urban, water, waterfowl|

While at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge two days ago I spotted my first of the season Common Merganser from the auto tour route.

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Late Summer Blue Wildflowers

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-22T03:43:48-05:00September 5th, 2017|Categories: Morgan County, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Anchusa officinalis, blue, blue wildflowers, Borage, canyon, Common Bugloss, introduced, late summer, mountains, wildflower, wildflowers, wildlfowers|

I don't know what species of wildflowers these blue flowers are, I just know that I enjoyed seeing and photographing them.

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Shades of Blue – Wildflowers, Birds, Sky and Sea

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-28T16:54:41-05:00April 17th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Honeymoon Island State Park, Lazuli Buntings, Little Blue Herons, Montana, Mountain Bluebirds, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, San Rafael Swell area, St. Thomas, USVI, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Ardea herodias, blue, Blue-eyed Grass, bluebird, bluebirds, blues, bunting, buntings, dunes, Egretta caerulea, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, Lazuli Bunting, Little Blue Heron, Magens Bay, Mountain Bluebirds, Passerina amoena, Saint Thomas, sand dune, Sialia currucoides, Sisyrinchium angustifolium, Unites States Virgin Islands|

Last week I was Thinking Pink so this week I thought I would focus on the shades of blues found in wildflowers, birds, the sky and seas.

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Shades of Blue – Friday Photos

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-21T07:32:13-05:00April 27th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Snowy Egrets|Tags: adult, bird photography, blue, blues, coast, coastal, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, Gulf of Mexico, shade, Snowy Egret, wading bird, water, waves|

Just a simple image of a Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) today. I photographed this Egret as it stalked along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico in Florida.

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