canyon – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Mercur Canyon Mountain Bluebird

By Mia McPherson|January 8th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Mercur Canyon, Mountain Bluebirds, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: adult, bird photography, bluebird, bluebirds, canyon, juniper, male, Mountain Bluebird, mountains, perched, Sialia currucoides, thrush, thrushes|

Yesterday while looking for birds to photograph I was enchanted by this Mercur Canyon Mountain Bluebird male while in Tooele County, Utah.

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Red-tailed Hawk perched above Elk Lake, Montana

By Mia McPherson|October 29th, 2013|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Red-tailed Hawks|Tags: adult, bird photography, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, canyon, cliff, Elk Lake, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Montana, perched, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk|

This past September I spotted an adult Red-tailed Hawk perched high on a rocky canyon wall as it looked out over the cold waters of Elk Lake in Beaverhead County, Montana.

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Cow Moose And Her Calf

By Mia McPherson|September 5th, 2013|Categories: Moose, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildlife|Tags: adult, beaver pond, Bountiful Canyon, calf, canyon, cow, Davis County, female, forest, hill, Moose, mountains, photography, running, wildlife, young|

Yesterday I headed up Skyline Drive at the entrance to Bountiful Canyon to see if I could find any migrating raptors riding the thermals of the Wasatch Mountain Range and while that wasn't a "bountiful" activity finding a Moose and her calf feeding near a beaver pond was.

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Green-tailed Towhee high up on Bountiful Canyon

By Mia McPherson|July 24th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Green-tailed Towhees, Sky Line Drive, Bountiful Canyon, Utah|Tags: adult, bush, canyon, Davis County, Green-tailed Towhee, mountains, photography, Pipilo chlorurus, serviceberry, shrub, sky, sparrow, sparrows, towhee, towhees, Wasatch Mountains|

Last week while heading up the Skyline Drive of Bountiful Canyon this Green-tailed Towhee was singing on top of a shrub and I was surprised when it hung around for about 2 minutes

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Singing Green-tailed Towhee

By Mia McPherson|May 8th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Green-tailed Towhees, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: adult, canyon, desert, foothills, Green-tailed Towhee, juniper, mountains, perched, Pipilo chlorurus, singing, sky, sparrow, sparrows, spring, Stansbury Mountains, towhee, towhees|

Yesterday I was able to photograph this Green-tailed Towhee as it sang on top of a Juniper in a canyon of the Stansbury Mountains in Tooele County, Utah.

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Mule Deer Doe in the Stansbury Mountains

By Mia McPherson|May 7th, 2013|Categories: Mule Deer, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: adult, canyon, desert, doe, female, mountains, Mule Deer, nature photography, Odocoileus hemionus, shedding, sky island mountains, spring, wildlife photography|

I photographed this Mule Deer doe while camping in North Willow Canyon in the Stansbury Mountain Range of Tooele County, Utah.

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