drying – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Four Double-crested Cormorants Resting On The Bank Of The Bear River

By Mia McPherson|2022-03-09T04:49:03-06:00March 9th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Double-crested Cormorants, Utah|Tags: adult, bank, Bear River, cormorant, cormorants, Double-crested Cormorant, drying, marsh, Nannopterum auritus, river, river bank, snag, stump, sunning, vegetation, warming, water, water birds, wetlands, winter|

After driving the auto tour loop at Bear River MBR two days ago I stopped to photograph four Double-crested Cormorants resting on the bank of the Bear River.

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Wondering About Overwintering Double-crested Cormorants

By Mia McPherson|2021-11-12T04:57:37-06:00November 12th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Double-crested Cormorants, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: autumn, cormorant, cormorants, Double-crested Cormorant, drying, fall, hatch year, immature, Nannopterum auritus, pond, urban, water, waterbirds, wings, young|

Last winter I missed seeing overwintering Double-crested Cormorants at my local ponds and in other locations in northern Utah where I typically see them.

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Franklin’s Gull Feasting On Brine Flies Plus News About The Great Salt Lake

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-22T06:05:28-05:00July 25th, 2021|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Franklin's Gulls, Utah|Tags: adult, brine flies, chasing, conservation, drying, dying, eating, Ephydra cinerea, Ephydra hians, feasting, flies, foraging, Franklin's Gull, Great Salt Lake, gull, gulls, hatch year, hypersaline, hypersaline lake, immature, juvenile, lake, Leucophaeus pipixcan, rocks, scooping, shore, shoreline, summer, walking, water, water levels, young|

While Franklin's Gulls are in northern Utah for their breeding season brine flies are an important food source for the adults and their young and are a part of their breeding success here in the Great Basin.

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Photographing a Red-tailed Hawk at Farmington Bay

By Mia McPherson|2021-10-12T06:16:25-05:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, drying, hawks, Hawks of Utah, nest box, perched, photograph, photographing, raptors, red-tailed, Red-tailed Hawk, snow, sub-adult, Wasatch Mountain Range, winter, yawning|

Almost three years ago today I spent time photographing a Red-tailed Hawk at Farmington Bay that was hunting in a snowy field while using a nest box as a perch to watch for prey.

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The Great Salt Lake is D(r)ying and Utah’s Water Crisis

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-28T05:23:38-05:00April 26th, 2015|Categories: American White Pelicans, Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Black-necked Stilts, Box Elder County, Brine Flies, Conservation, Davis County, Eared Grebes, Environment, Franklin's Gulls, Northern Shovelers, Utah, Wilson's Phalaropes|Tags: American White Pelican, bird photography, birds, Black-necked Stilt, brine fly, brine shrimp, climate change, climate crisis, drought, drying, duck, ducks, dying, Eared Grebe, Great Basin hub, Great Salt Lake, grebe, grebes, habitat, hyper saline, hypersaline, migration, Northern Shoveler, Pacific Flyway, pelican, pelicans, phalarope, phalaropes, record low, shoveler, shovelers, water crisis, Wilson's Phalarope|

One thing I know for certain is that we can't drink dust.

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