crouching – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Crouching Sage Thrasher

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-05T04:50:35-06:00June 27th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Sage Thrashers, Utah|Tags: adult, blue, crouched, crouching, desert, metal post, Mountain Mockingbirds, Oreoscoptes montanus, pandemic, sad, Sage Thrasher, thrasher, thrashers|

I hoped the Sage Thrasher would come closer so that I could photograph it and just about the time the Short-eared Owl lifted off the thrasher popped up on a nearby metal post.

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Rufous Morph Red-tailed Hawk Taking Flight Photos

By Mia McPherson|2021-01-28T15:15:01-06:00March 22nd, 2019|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, altitude, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, crouching, female, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lift off, lifting off, pushing off, raising wings, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, rufous, rufous morph, sequence, taking flight|

By the time I took this next image in the series the Red-tailed Hawk had straightened her legs, her wings were high over her body and she was pushing off from the rock.

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Immature Red-tailed Hawk at East Canyon State Park

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-03T03:31:23-05:00November 6th, 2018|Categories: Birds, East Canyon State Park, Hawks, Eagles, Ospreys and Vultures, Morgan County, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, crouching, flight, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, lift off, Red-tailed Hawk, young|

I was able to photograph two immature Red-tailed Hawks at East Canyon State Park and the photos I am sharing today are of the first one that I found.

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American Pipits On The Rocks

By Mia McPherson|2021-11-02T05:48:03-05:00September 19th, 2017|Categories: American Pipits, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Pipit, Anthus rubescens, autumn, Buff-bellied Pipit, calling, crouching, fall, head turn, marsh, perched, pipit, pipits, rocks, standing tall, Water Pipit|

I've been hearing American Pipits on the wing for a while now and yesterday I was happy to photograph several pipits while they perched on some rocks in northern Utah.

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Crouching Tricolored Herons

By Mia McPherson|2016-12-07T12:09:40-06:00May 8th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Tricolored Herons|Tags: adult, crouched, crouching, Egretta tricolor, foraging, Gulf of Mexico, herons, hunting, nonbreeding, Tricolored Heron, wading bird, wading birds|

Tricolored Herons use many foraging behaviors to obtain their prey including walking quickly then crouching before stabbing their prey.

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Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk – From lift off to flight

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-25T05:21:44-05:00November 3rd, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: autumn, Buteo jamaicensis, crouching, Davis County, desert island, fall, flight, flying, immature, juvenile, lift off, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, rocks, Western Red-tailed hawk, young|

I went out into the west desert of Utah this morning hoping to take images of the raptors I thought I would find there to do a post on but some days though the birds are few and those that you find just aren't cooperative

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