chattering – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Four Years Ago Today I Found A Rare Upland Sandpiper

By Mia McPherson|2022-05-27T13:19:08-05:00August 31st, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Rarities, Upland Sandpipers, Utah|Tags: Bartramia longicauda, calling, chattering, hills, perched, power pole, rare, rarity, records committee, sagebrush steppe, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, sighting, summer, Upland Sandpiper|

Four years ago today stopping for a Golden Eagle perched on a power pole in Box Elder County would net me a rare Upland Sandpiper sighting because of the sandpiper's chattering call.

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My Rare Upland Sandpiper Sighting in Utah

By Mia McPherson|2023-12-04T02:52:54-06:00September 1st, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Rarities, Upland Sandpipers, Utah|Tags: Bartramia longicauda, calling, chattering, perched, rare, rarity, records committee, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, sighting, Upland Sandpiper|

I got to find, point out, and photograph a rare Upland Sandpiper in Utah well out of its normal migration route and range, what a day. What a find

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Uinta Ground Squirrel Calling from a Lichen Covered Boulder

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-18T17:02:42-05:00June 9th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Uinta Ground Squirrels|Tags: adult, boulder, calling, chattering, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, lichen, squirrel, squirrels, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus|

I was very happy to photograph this Uinta Ground Squirrel calling from a lichen covered boulder last week in southwestern Montana.

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At the Magical Sapsucker Tree Once Again

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-27T16:19:42-05:00May 3rd, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Mountain Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Targhee National Forest, Williamson's Sapsuckers|Tags: adult, aspen, branch, cavity nesting birds, chattering, chickadee, chickadees, forest, Montana, Mountain Chickadee, mountains, nest, nesting cavity, nuthatch, nuthatches, pair, Poecile gambeli, Red-breasted Nuthatch, sapsucker, sapsuckers, Sitta canadensis, Sphyrapicus thyroideus, tree, trees, Williamson's Sapsucker, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

Yesterday may have started off dreary but it sure got lively with a Willamson's Sapsucker, Mountain Chickadee and a pair of Red-breasted Nuthatches at the Magical Sapsucker Tree!

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The Magical Sapsucker Tree in Clark County, Idaho

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-25T05:57:30-05:00July 4th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Clark County, House Wrens, Idaho, Red-naped Sapsuckers, Targhee National Forest, Tree Swallows, Williamson's Sapsuckers|Tags: adult, aspen, branches, cavity, chattering, fecal sacs, female, food, forest, House Wren, male, nest, nesting, nesting cavity, nesting tree, nestlings, pair, Populus tremuloides, prey, Quaking Aspen, Red-naped Sapsucker, sapsucker, sapsuckers, secondary cavity nesters, Sphyrapicus, Sphyrapicus nuchalis, Sphyrapicus thyroideus, swallow, Tachycineta bicolor, tree, Tree Swallow, Troglodytes aedon, Williamson's Sapsucker, wooded, woodpecker, woodpeckers, wren, wrens|

A month ago I photographed a pair of Williamson's Sapsuckers excavating a nesting cavity in Idaho and this past week I spent several days photographing them again.

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House Wrens – Nesting Behavior

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-26T06:15:06-06:00June 4th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Clark County, House Wrens, Idaho, Targhee National Forest|Tags: adult, aspen, branch, break, cavity nesters, chattering, head, House Wren, nesting, nesting behavior, nesting cavity, nesting material, nesting tree, perched, poking, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, secondary cavity nesters, singing, stump, Troglodytes aedon, wren, wrens|

For a few days now I said I was going to do a post about the House Wrens I photographed at the same nesting tree as the Williamson's Sapsuckers, here it is.

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Northern Harrier

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-24T05:30:30-06:00January 31st, 2012|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: 2nd year, birds of prey, chattering, Circus hudsonius, desert island, diving, flight, flying, Gray Ghost, harrier, harriers, hawk, hawks, immature, low light, male, Marsh hawk, Northern Harrier, raptors, snow, winter|

This Northern Harrier displayed interesting behavior, it didn't appear to be hunting but it would dive into the vegetation where it would make a sound that reminded me of parrots chattering.

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