bedraggled – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Winter European Starling

By Mia McPherson|2022-05-27T14:43:14-05:00January 18th, 2020|Categories: Birds, European Starlings, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, bath, bedraggled, European Starling, ice, pond, shore, snow, starling, starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, urban, water, wet, winter|

I thought I was going to go home without any frame filling bird photos until this European Starling flew in and landed next to the water.

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An Immature Red-tailed Hawk On A Foggy Morning In The Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-03T03:18:41-05:00September 13th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Red-tailed Hawks, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, alert, bedraggled, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, capture, damp, diving, eating, flight, fly over, flying, fog, foggy, freshly caught, hatch year, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, lifting off, metal post, mountains, prey, raptors, red tail, Red-tailed Hawk, talons, wet|

There are times when one bird can make my day and yesterday that bird was an immature Red-tailed Hawk that I spotted just before heading home after a trip into the mountains that included fog and other challenges.

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Black-capped Chickadees Photographed In A Mountain Canyon

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-23T13:58:13-05:00August 13th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Black-capped Chickadees, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Amelanchier utahensis, bedraggled, berries, berry, Black-capped Chickadee, calling, canyon, chickadee, chickadees, Common Mullein, flight, mountains, Poecile atricapillus, serviceberries, serviceberry, song bird, Utah Serviceberry, Verbascum thapsus|

I spent some time yesterday morning observing, photographing and enjoying the songs and calls of Black-capped Chickadees in a high mountain canyon. Chickadees always bring a smile to my lips and yesterday was no exception.

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First year Red-tailed Hawk Close Up in a Snow Storm

By Mia McPherson|2022-10-04T07:41:10-05:00December 26th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: bedraggled, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, close up, first year, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, juvenile, raptors, red-tailed, Red-tailed Hawk, Russian Olive, snow, snow storm, winter, young|

This first year Red-tailed Hawk close up in the snow storm was a reminder of how much our birds and wildlife have to struggle to get through the harsh winter.

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A Wet and Bedraggled Swainson’s Hawk

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-31T15:49:07-05:00June 11th, 2015|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Swainson's Hawks|Tags: adult, bedraggled, bird photography, birds of prey, Buteo swainsoni, fence post, hawk, hawks, low light, rain, raptors, Swainson's Hawk, wet|

It was rainy yesterday evening in southwestern Montana and eastern Idaho but that didn't stop me from getting this image of a wet and bedraggled Swainson's Hawk in the Centennial Valley.

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