Pinellas County – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Snowy Plovers – Photographed in the West and East

Mia McPherson2018-07-04T05:27:14+00:00July 4th, 2018|Categories: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Snowy Plovers, Utah|Tags: beach, Charadrius nivosus, flies, lifer, long distance, morning light, mud, plover, plovers, resting, shorebird, shorebirds, Snowy Plover|

It is always nice to be able to point out a lifer bird to someone else and that is what I did on June 25th after I spotted a tiny Snowy Plover at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge foraging in the mud.

Photographing Shorebirds at Eye Level

Mia McPherson2018-04-06T06:58:48+00:00April 6th, 2018|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Black-bellied Plovers, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Greater Yellowlegs, Long-billed Curlews, Marbled Godwits, Pinellas County, Piping Plovers, Ruddy Turnstones|Tags: American Oystercatcher, Arenaria interpres, Black-bellied Plover, Charadrius melodus, curlews, godwits, Greater Yellowlegs, Haematopus palliatus, Limosa fedoa, Long-billed Curlew, Low angle, Marbled Godwit, Numenius americanus, oystercatchers, perspective, Piping Plover, plovers, Pluvialis squatarola, Ruddy Turnstone, sand crawling, sandpipers, shorebird, shorebirds, technique, Tringa melanoleuca, turnstones, yellowlegs|

Taking photographs of shorebirds at eye level was very fulfilling for me and the images that resulted from my down & dirty technique have always made me feel an intimate connection to the birds.

Long-billed Curlews – Shorebirds of the Great Basin

Mia McPherson2018-04-22T04:06:57+00:00March 22nd, 2018|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Long-billed Curlews, Pinellas County, Utah|Tags: call, curlew, curlews, grasses, grasslands, Great Basin, Great Plains, Long-billed Curlew, male, Numenius americanus, rangelands, sagebrush prairies, shorebird, shorebirds|

It was one year ago today that I saw and heard my first Long-billed Curlews of the year and this morning as I sit here knowing there are cloudy skies outside I am wondering if the curlews have returned to northern Utah today as well.

When the S___ Hits the Fan, Go To a Happy Place

Mia McPherson2018-03-07T06:44:11+00:00March 7th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Egrets, Pinellas County|Tags: Ardea alba, egret, egrets, Great Egret, Gulf of Mexico, happy place, sunrise, Sunshine Skyway Bridge, tidal lagoon, wading birds|

The sun hadn't yet come up when I spotted this Great Egret in the tidal lagoon with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in the background and it looked like the water was on fire.