devouring – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Uinta Ground Squirrels Eating Earthworms

By Mia McPherson|2024-04-20T08:51:19-05:00April 26th, 2020|Categories: Summit County, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: break, canyon, chewing, chowing down, devouring, earthworm, earthworms, eating, grasses, ground, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, meal, mountains, mouth, mud, muddy, munching, nibbling, rain, spring, squirrel, squirrels, stuffing, tongue, tugging, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus, wet, worm, worms, wrestling|

Two days ago I photographed something I had never seen or documented when I stopped to take photos of a Uinta Ground Squirrel and it started eating a big, fat earthworm.

American Avocet Devouring a Tiny Crayfish

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-29T13:10:54-05:00August 29th, 2016|Categories: American Avocets, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Avocet, avocet, avocets, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, devouring, eating, feed, forage, foraging, mudbugs, nonbreeding, nonbreeding plumage, Recurvirostra americana, shorebirds, summer|

I was tickled to photograph this American Avocet as it fed but it wasn't until later that I knew it was devouring a tiny crayfish.

Four year old Bald Eagle eating a fish

By Mia McPherson|2022-02-22T07:01:44-06:00March 15th, 2013|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: Bald Eagle, carp, devouring, eagle, eagles, eating, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, fish, four year old, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, pole, raptors, Utah, winter, wooden pole|

It was the day after Christmas in 2009 when I watched this four year old Bald Eagle lift off from this pole to catch this fish in the water impoundment nearby and to my surprise it flew right back to the same pole to devour it.