Miscellaneous – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Show Your Love – Don’t Let Balloons Go

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-14T04:51:57-06:00February 14th, 2024|Categories: Conservation, Environment, Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: balloon, balloons, bird dangers, danger, dangerous, entanglement, hazard, hazardous, ingest, Jordan River, mylar balloons, shrubs, strings, tangled, urban, wildlife dangers, winter|

Last Sunday I went to some local spots to look for birds. As I was driving, I saw four mylar balloons stuck in some shrubs near the Jordan River. My heart sank.

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Common Mergansers And Remote Controlled Harassment

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-15T05:09:41-06:00January 15th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Harassment, Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: adult, birds, bothering, close up, Common Merganser, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, flight, flying, harassment, harasssing, immature, male, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, park, pond, remote controlled boat, remote controlled speedboat, sliding, toy, urban, water, waterfowl, wild, winter, young|

I photographed these Common Mergansers at my local pond three years ago today. I will explain why I only had a few minutes with the mergansers at my local pond.

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Happy Winter Solstice 2023

By Mia McPherson|2023-12-21T04:23:55-06:00December 21st, 2023|Categories: Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: clouds, mountains, peaks, Salt Lake County, sky, snow, snow covered, snowy, urban, Utah, Wasatch Mountain Range, Wasatch Mountains, Winter Solstice|

I look forward to the Winter Solstice each year because it marks when the days start getting longer. On this day, I celebrate Mother Nature and our Mother Earth.

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Halloween 2023 – The Web We Weave

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-31T13:16:49-05:00October 31st, 2023|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Miscellaneous, Pinellas County|Tags: fog, foggy, forest, Halloween, Mom, spider web, water droplets|

Tonight, across the country, ghouls, goblins, super heroes, cartoon characters, vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghosts, and witches will be ringing door bells asking for treats.

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An Incredible Shelf Cloud Over Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-24T05:51:47-05:00October 24th, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Miscellaneous, Utah, Weather Phenomena|Tags: Arcus clouds, autumn, Bear River MBR, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, cloud, cloud formations, clouds, composite, Cumulonimbus clouds, fall, flats, morning, panorama, ranchlands, shelf cloud, sky, stormy, tree, unusual, Utah, weather phenomena|

Today, I am sharing a few images of an incredible shelf cloud over Bear River MBR that I was thrilled to see and photograph yesterday morning.

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I Lost My Mom Yesterday

By Mia McPherson|2023-09-29T08:01:40-05:00July 5th, 2023|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: death, life, loss, lost, Mom|

My mom might have left her body but she will always be with me, in my heart, and every time I am out in field surrounded by nature.

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Patterns In Ice And Human Nature?

By Mia McPherson|2022-12-27T06:50:04-06:00December 27th, 2022|Categories: Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: awful, Christmas Eve, cup, garbage, ice, patterns, people, pollution, pond, trash, urban, water, winter|

These swirly patterns in ice caught my eye because of the light and golden reflections from the vegetation on the shoreline of a neighborhood pond.

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Water Wolf In Utah

By Mia McPherson|2023-08-31T05:53:18-05:00November 18th, 2022|Categories: Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: autumn, fall, imagination, Jordan River, Jordan River Parkway Trail, Jordan River Trail, pareidolia, rapids, Utah Legislature, video, water, wolf, wolves|

On the 10th of November while I was walking the Jordan River I went close to the river to take a few photos of the rapids and caught a water wolf in one frame.

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Bass Weathervane – Non-Birdy Things That Catch My Eyes

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-18T03:22:40-05:00April 15th, 2022|Categories: Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: Bass, east, metal, north, sky, south, spring, Weathervane, west|

Sometimes when I am in the field photographing birds other things catch my eyes that I want to take images of. This Bass weathervane is one of those things.

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White Feather Floating On A Pond

By Mia McPherson|2022-01-27T05:03:02-06:00January 27th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: downy, feather, floating, fluffy, pond, pure, snow, truth, urban, water, white, winter|

A few days ago I came across this image of a snow white feather floating on a pond when I went down a rabbit hole into my photo archives.

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I Stopped To Photograph And Listen To The Ice At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|2022-01-13T05:27:01-06:00January 13th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Miscellaneous, Utah|Tags: chunk, chunks, crack, fractured, frosty, ice, marsh, ping, pop, sounds, wetland, winter|

While I was at Bear River MBR on Tuesday I stopped to photograph and listen to the ice that has piled up on the west side of the auto tour route.

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Fruit Fly Shaped Cloud

By Mia McPherson|2022-01-13T04:32:08-06:00November 14th, 2021|Categories: Miscellaneous, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: apophenia, autumn, cloud, clouds, Drosophila, fall, fruit fly, pareidolia, shape, shapes, sky|

On Friday I was looking for birds high in the sky and low on the horizon when I turned my head and spotted a fruit fly shaped cloud.

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A Cook’s Memorial? Odd Things I Find While Looking For Birds

By Mia McPherson|2021-01-19T06:03:13-06:00January 19th, 2021|Categories: Miscellaneous, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: bows, cooks memorial, Curlycup Gumweed, desert, grasses, Grindelia squarrosa, memorial, odd things, pottery shards, range, roadside oddities, rocks, seashells, winter, wooden spoons|

As best as I can figure out what is in this photo is a cook's memorial that I found 7 years ago today out on a range in Utah's West Desert.

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