mate – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Nesting Mountain Bluebirds And Other Woodland Birds

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-29T08:28:24-05:00April 30th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Chipping Sparrows, House Wrens, Mountain Bluebirds, Yellow-rumped Warblers|Tags: adult, aspen, bird finding tip, bluebird, bluebirds, branch, breeding plumage, breeding season, canyon, Chipping Sparrow, clod, close up, dirt, forest, forest edge, gathering, House Wren, instincts, looking up, male, mate, Mountain Bluebird, mountains, nesting cavity, nesting materials, perched, photographic rut, portrait, regal, road, Setophaga coronata, shadow, Sialia currucoides, singing, sparrow, sparrows, Spizella passerina, spring, thrushes, trees, Troglodytes aedon, warbler, warblers, wren, wrens, Yellow-rumped Warbler|

Yesterday I had a blast photographing a pair of Mountain Bluebirds at a natural nesting cavity at the edge of a forest along with some other woodland birds.

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Greater-Sage Grouse Leks In March

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-26T10:37:43-05:00March 8th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Greater Sage-Grouse, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, battle, breeding behavior, breeding display, breeding grounds, breeding season, calling, Centrocercus urophasianus, displaying, early morning, face off, facing off, fight, Greater Sage-Grouse, grouse, lek, male, mate, pops, puffed up, sage-grouse, sounds, spar, sunrise, whistles|

March is a time when my mind wanders to windswept, high country sagebrush steppes where Greater-Sage Grouse will dance, fight and court on their leks as they have done for eons.

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Highlights Of My Bird Photography Trip Yesterday to Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-27T07:07:20-05:00June 3rd, 2019|Categories: American Avocets, American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Black-crowned Night Herons, Box Elder County, Double-crested Cormorants, Long-tailed Weasels, Snowy Plovers, Utah|Tags: adult, American Avocet, American White Pelican, Asian Carp, Black-crowned Night Heron, carp, Charadrius nivosus, close up, Double-crested Cormorant, fish, flats, hunting, immature, Long-tailed Weasel, male, marsh, mate, Mustela frenata, Nannopterum auritus, night heron, night herons, Nycticorax nycticorax, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, preening, Recurvirostra americana, road, Snowy Plover, splashing, standing up, Supplemental Plumage, watching over, weasel, weasels|

When a bird photography trip up to Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge starts with me spotting not just one but two Snowy Plovers out on the flats I just know the day is off to a great start and that is what happened yesterday morning.

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Canada Geese on Willow Pond

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-13T14:31:49-06:00February 10th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Canada Geese, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: Branta canadensis, Canada Geese, close up, geese, goose, mate, pond, portrait, swimming, urban, water, waterfowl, winter|

Because they are very common in most North America Canada Geese are often overlooked as subjects by some bird photographers.

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Antelope Island’s Coyotes on a bright winter day

By Mia McPherson|2021-02-27T04:44:41-06:00January 21st, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Coyotes, Utah|Tags: alert, Canis latrans, close up, Coyote, coyotes, Davis County, Great Salt Lake, ice, mate, mates, mudflat, mudflats, pair, portrait, snarling, wildlife, wildlife photography, winter|

Yesterday was a Coyote kind of day for me seeing two Coyotes fight, a pair chase off an intruding Coyote and another pair with an intruding Coyote following them.

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