fence posts – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Red-tailed Hawk Waiting For The Light

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-19T03:36:18-05:00October 4th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Red-tailed Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, autumn, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, desert, fall, fence posts, foothills, hawk, hawks, light, morning light, perched, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk|

My favorite of the hawks I photographed in the West Desert yesterday was this adult Red-tailed Hawk on a fence post waiting for the morning light.

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Lark Sparrow In Golden Morning Light

By Mia McPherson|2021-06-04T05:29:30-05:00June 4th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Lark Sparrows, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, Chondestes grammacus, clouds, fence, fence post, fence posts, foothills, golden light, grasses, juniper, junipers, Juniperus osteosperma, Lark Sparrow, mountains, perched, sky, sky island mountains, sparrow, sparrows, spring, Utah Juniper|

Two days ago I photographed this adult Lark Sparrow that I found perched on an old fence post in golden light in the West Desert of Tooele County.

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Thermoregulating Turkey Vulture Close Up

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-12T06:05:54-06:00April 11th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: adult, behavior, birds of prey, Cathartes aura, close up, fence posts, horaltic pose, portrait, posture, raptors, roosted, sage, sagebrush, spring, thermoregulating, thermoregulating posture, Turkey Vulture, vulture, vultures, warm up, wings extended, wooden posts|

Mornings have still been fairly chilly here in northern Utah and the Turkey Vultures that recently arrived on spring migration have been taking advantage of the rising sun by thermoregulating to help chase off the chill.

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Short-eared Owl Surveying the Centennial Valley of Montana

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-22T14:28:27-06:00July 9th, 2017|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Short-eared Owls|Tags: adult, Asio flammeus, barbed wire, fence, fence posts, Gravelly Range, mountains, owl, owls, Owls of Montana, Short-eared Owl, summer, valley|

The Short-eared Owl was perched on the post and slowly turned its head to look around as if it was surveying the beauty of the valley it had made its home in.

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