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Spring Views Of Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|June 6th, 2025|Categories: American Bison, Comanche County, Elk, Oklahoma, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge|Tags: American Bison, Bison, Bison bison, boulders, building, Calves, Cervus canadensis, Charon's Garden, clear, Cleopatra's Cluster, cooling, day, early morning, Elk, field, grazing, Jed Johnson Tower, lake, Lake Jed Johnson, landscape, low light, mammals, meadow, mixed-grass prairie, morning, morning light, mountains, Post Oak Lake, Reds, reflections, resting, rock formation, rocks, rocky, scenery, sky, spring, Treasure Lake, trees, view, water|

I wanted to share these spring views of Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge while it’s still spring. Summer isn’t all that far off now, so today’s the day.

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Hungry Barn Swallow Chicks

By Mia McPherson|August 25th, 2023|Categories: Barn Swallows, Birds, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: babies, Barn Swallow, bill, bills, building, chick, chicks, Hirundo rustica, hungry, immature, juvenile, juveniles, nest, nestling, nestlings, open, park, summer, swallow, swallows, urban, young|

Yesterday, I shared photos of baby American Coots. Today, I am sharing an image of Barn Swallow chicks taken on the same day and location as the young coots.

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My 2022 Year In Review

By Mia McPherson|December 31st, 2022|Categories: American Kestrels, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Black-billed Magpies, Box Elder County, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, Horned Grebes, Morgan County, Northern Yellow Warblers, Ring-billed Gulls, Rock Wrens, Ruffed Grouse, Tundra Swans, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Western Warbling-Vireos|Tags: adult, Amelanchier utahensis, American Kestrel, Aquila chrysaetos, autumn, background, berries, Bewick's Swan, bill, birds of prey, Black-billed Magpie, blooming, blooms, blossoms, Bonasa umbellus, boulder, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Bubo virginianus, building, canyon, close up, corvids, Cygnus columbianus, Cygnus columbianus bewickii, Davis County, desert, dirt, eagle, eagles, Falco sparverius, falcon, falcons, fall, farmlands, female, fledgling, flight, flock, flowering, flowering shrub, flying, forest edge, fruiting shrub, fruits, fruting shrubs, Golden Eagle, gorget, Great Horned Owl, grebe, grebes, grouse, gull, gulls, Horned Grebe, hummingbird, hummingbirds, immature, juvenile, kestrel, kestrels, Larus delawarensis, lichen, lores, magpie, magpies, male, marsh, mountains, nest, nest box, nesting, nonbreeding plumage, owl, owls, perched, Pica hudsonia, Podiceps auritus, raptors, rare, reflection, Ring-billed Gull, riparian habitat, road, roadside, rock, Rock Wren, rocks, Ruffed Grouse, Salpinctes obsoletus, Selasphorus platycercus, serviceberries, serviceberry, Setophaga aestiva, shrub, spring, stink-eye, summer, swan, swans, thicket, tree, Tundra Swans, Utah, Utah Serviceberry, vagrant, warbler, warblers, water, waterbirds, waterfowl, wetlands, willow, willow thicket, willows, winter, winter plumage, wood-warbler, wood-warblers, wren, wrens, Yellow Warbler, young|

On this last day of the year it is time for my annual 2022 Year in Review post. In some ways 2022 has been great for me and in others not so good.

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Photographing Two Yellow Warbler Nests

By Mia McPherson|May 23rd, 2022|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Northern Yellow Warblers, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, building, canyon, Crataegus rivularis, female, hawthorn, hawthorns, mountains, nest, nesting, nesting materials, River Hawthorn, Setophaga aestiva, spring, warbler, warblers, Wasatch Mountains, willow, willow thicket, willows, wood-warbler, wood-warblers, Yellow Warbler|

Yesterday morning I found not one but two Yellow Warbler nests high in the Wasatch Mountains because I paid attention to the movements of two female warblers.

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