colors – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Recent Wild Turkey Images

By Mia McPherson|2022-10-14T03:15:20-05:00October 14th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wild Turkeys|Tags: adult, autumn, beard, canyon, close up, colors, creek, creekside, fall, long, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, plumage, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland game birds, Wild Turkey|

On my three recent trips up into the Wasatch Mountains I have been able to take Wild Turkey images on two of the chilly mornings.

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Fall Hooded Merganser At Farmington Bay

By Mia McPherson|2021-12-10T05:49:28-06:00October 17th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Hooded Mergansers, Utah|Tags: autumn, autumn colors, colors, diving ducks, duck, ducks, fall, female, hen, Hooded Merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus, marsh, merganser, mergansers, mirror, Nikon D500, pond, reflections, shutter replacement cost, small in frame, water, wetlands|

This morning I am sharing a simple image of a Hooded Merganser I found two days ago on a pond at Farmington Bay WMA that had autumn colors reflected on the water.

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Cooperative Northern Mockingbird in Autumn

By Mia McPherson|2024-04-01T12:40:29-05:00October 21st, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Northern Mockingbirds, Utah|Tags: adult, alert, autumn, colors, cooperative, desert, fall, Fragrant Sumac, leaves, lift off, mimids, Mimus polyglottos, mockingbird, mockingbirds, Northern Mockingbird, perched, Rhus aromatica, sumac, twig|

Some days one good bird is all I get and if I hadn't spotted this cooperative Mockingbird on a Fragrant Sumac in northern Utah yesterday I would have been mostly skunked.

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Photographing a Dynasty of Ruby-crowned Kinglets

By Mia McPherson|2021-01-23T07:17:15-06:00October 8th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, bright, Celtis reticulata, colors, Corthylio calendula, crowns, dynasty, fall colors, Fragrant Sumac, hackberry, kinglet, kinglets, lift off, male, Netleaf Hackberry, perched, photograph, photographing, Rhus aromatica, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, sumac, sunny|

Yesterday I saw so many Ruby-crowned Kinglets in northern Utah that it was impossible for me to keep up with them, I am certain I missed some excellent images because of that.

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Autumn colors and a resting Clark’s Grebe

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-23T06:34:05-05:00October 16th, 2014|Categories: Clark's Grebes, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: Aechmophorus clarkii, autumn, Clark's Grebe, colors, fall, grebe, grebes, marsh, reflections, resting, wetlands|

Autumn colors have begun to appear and they are delightful when reflected on the water with a nearly black and white subject like this resting Clark's Grebe.

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