copulating – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Summer Dragonflies And Butterflies At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-29T10:46:39-05:00August 26th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Blue-eyed Darner Dragonflies, Box Elder County, Clouded Sulphur Butterflies, Purplish Copper Butterflies, Utah|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, Blue-eyed Darner, butterflies, butterfly, Clouded Sulphur, Colias philodice, Common Sunflower, copper, coppers, copulating, dragonflies, dragonfly, female, Helianthus annuus, Lycaena helloides, male, marsh, mating, nectaring, pair, Purplish Copper, Rhionaeschna multicolor, sky, sulphur, sulphurs, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, wetlands, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

Today I am sharing some of the dragonflies and butterflies I've found at Bear River MBR in the summer.

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Mating Killdeer at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-18T19:12:38-05:00May 23rd, 2018|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Killdeer, Utah|Tags: adult, Charadrius vociferus, copulating, courtship behavior, female, Killdeer, killdeers, male, marsh, mating, mating behavior, plover, plovers, shorebirds, spring, wetlands|

Last week when I took my Mom to Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge we were fortunate to see and photograph Killdeer mating while on the auto tour route.

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Pair of Red-tailed Hawks Mating – A Wild 34 Seconds

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-26T04:14:29-05:00March 30th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, bird photography, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, copulating, dismounting, female, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lichen, male, mating, mating behavior, mounting, Nikon D500, raptors, red tail hawk, red-tailed, Red-tailed Hawk, rocks, rocky outcropping|

What I didn't expect yesterday was that I would be able to photograph the Red-tailed Hawks mating on the lichen-covered outcropping but that is what happened

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Mating Swainson’s Hawks in Beaverhead County

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-31T06:05:58-05:00May 6th, 2015|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Montana, Swainson's Hawks|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo swainsoni, copulating, hawk, hawks, mating, raptors, Swainson's Hawk|

Three days ago I felt fortunate to come across a mated pair of Swainson's Hawks in Beaverhead County, Montana, the male was an intermediate morph and the female was a light morph.

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