checking out – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Spring Clark’s Grebe Images

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-18T03:21:02-05:00April 14th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Clark's Grebes, Utah|Tags: adult, Aechmophorus clarkii, checking out, Clark's Grebe, grebe, grebes, marsh, moving away, pair, spring, swimming, water, waterbirds, wetlands|

I'm sharing a few spring Clark's Grebe images today that I took up in the marshes of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge during the first week of April.

My Growing Concerns Over This Years Crop Of Douglas Fir Seeds Because Of Our Drought

By Mia McPherson|2021-10-24T06:45:41-05:00October 24th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Mountain Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, alpine, autumn, branch, checking out, chickadee, chickadees, cone, cones, Douglas fir, eating, fall, feeding, fir, fir tree, fir trees, firs, foraging, mature, Mountain Chickadee, mountains, needles, nuthatch, nuthatches, Poecile gambeli, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir, scales, seed, seeds, Sitta canadensis, sky island mountains, spot, sunlight, trees|

My trip out into the sky island mountains of the West Desert last week caused my concerns about this years crop of Douglas Fir seeds to grow.

Red-breasted Nuthatches and Their Nesting Cavities

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-12T07:50:50-05:00May 7th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Targhee National Forest|Tags: aspen, calls, checking out, clinging, excavate, excavating, excavation, female, nesting cavities, nesting cavity, nesting tree, nuthatch, nuthatches, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, songs|

Right now Red-breasted Nuthatches should be looking for or excavating nesting cavities here in northern Utah which means I should take a trip up to the back roads in the mountains soon and see if I can locate some closer to home than Idaho or Montana.