Dixie National Forest – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Mountain Bluebird On The Aquarius Plateau

By Mia McPherson|March 27th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Dixie National Forest, Mountain Bluebirds, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, Aquarius Plateau, barbed wire, bluebird, bluebirds, early spring, fence, glowed, male, Mountain Bluebird, perched, sagebrush steppe, Sialia currucoides, song bird, spring, thrush, thrushes, wind-swept|

I thought this male Mountain Bluebird photographed on the Aquarius Plateau in Wayne County, Utah positively glowed in the early morning light.

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Finding Greater Sage-Grouse Away From Their Leks

By Mia McPherson|March 26th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Dixie National Forest, Greater Sage-Grouse, Utah|Tags: adult, Aquarius Plateau, Centrocercus urophasianus, close up, Greater Sage-Grouse, grouse, habitat, lek, male, portrait, sage-grouse, sagebrush steppe, spring, upland terrestrial birds|

Finding Greater Sage-Grouse away from their leks isn't easy. It takes sharp eyes, keen observation skills, plus knowing what to look for.

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Two Greater Sage-Grouse Foraging On The Aquarius Plateau

By Mia McPherson|June 2nd, 2020|Categories: Birds, Dixie National Forest, Greater Sage-Grouse, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, Aquarius Plateau, Centrocercus urophaisianus, foraging, Greater Sage-Grouse, grouse, high sagebrush steppe, morning, plateau, sage-grouse, sagebrush, sky, upland terrestrial birds|

I found these two foraging Greater Sage-Grouse high up on the Aquarius Plateau in Wayne County, Utah five years ago today.

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Common Raven In Flight Over A Sagebrush Steppe In Utah’s Dixie National Forest

By Mia McPherson|February 8th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Common Ravens, Dixie National Forest, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, Aquarius Plateau, Common Raven, corvids, Corvus corax, flight, flying, raven, ravens, sagebrush steppe|

I had a Common Raven that was close enough to get a few images of it in flight and it excited me.

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Wild Turkeys in Utah

By Mia McPherson|November 2nd, 2016|Categories: Birds, Dixie National Forest, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, Wayne County, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: canyons, female, hen, junipers, male, pond, tom, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey, woods|

Maybe next time I up in the canyons I will get lucky and spot some of the Wild Turkeys that make their home in the Stansbury Mountains.

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Wild Turkey Hen In The Dixie National Forest

By Mia McPherson|June 2nd, 2015|Categories: Birds, Dixie National Forest, Utah, Wayne County, Wild Turkeys|Tags: female, hen, Meleagris gallopavo, mountain pond, turkey, upland terestrial bird, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey|

Just a quick post this morning from Wayne County, Utah of a Wild Turkey hen I saw feeding near a small pond on the way up to Boulder Top yesterday.

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Red Canyon in the Dixie National Forest

By Mia McPherson|March 7th, 2015|Categories: Dixie National Forest, Garfield County, Red Canyon, Utah|Tags: Butch Cassidy, Claron limestone, clouds, desert, Hoodoo, Hoodoos, landscape photography, nature photography, optical illusion, ponderosa pine, sky, spites, summer, Sunset Cliffs, tees|

It is difficult for me to believe it has been seven and a half years since I first saw Red Canyon in the Dixie National Forest of Utah but it has been that long.

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