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Western Tanager male at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson, on February 7th, 2013%

Western Tanager male in breeding plumage

This is the only bird I could find in my files that had the same colors of the Flaming Hibiscus I posted earlier this morning and since I didn’t want this to be a birdless day on Onthewingphotography I worked this Western Tanager file up in a hurry.

This was photographed last summer at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in the Centennial Valley of Beaverhead County, Montana. I sure wish we had been able to get closer to this flame-colored bird, the cows there allowed us to get much closer.

Have a super day!

Mia

A Flaming Hibiscus

By Mia McPherson, on February 7th, 2013%

Flame Hibiscus

I’m lucky. As a photographer I can look at my images and in my mind travel through time to the memories I built when I created them This flame-colored Hibiscus takes me back to a warm, sunny day in Tampa at the USF Botanical Garden, for awhile when I look at this I can forget the fog building outside my window and the snow on the ground.

It was a happy day but THIS is a happy day too despite what the weather might hold.

Mia

*This was taken with a point and shoot camera, I don’t have the techs.