eggs – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Nesting Western Grebe Plus Good News On The Parleys Canyon Fire

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-18T06:58:41-05:00August 18th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Western Grebes|Tags: adult, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, breeding season, checking, eggs, grebe, grebes, incubate, incubating, marsh, nest, nesting, settling, summer, turn, turning, Utah, water, Western Grebe, wetlands|

One year ago today I found a nesting Western Grebe with two eggs at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and I realized yesterday that I had never shared photos of it.

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Spring Means Nesting Birds and Chicks – Please Give Them Space

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-23T16:13:44-05:00March 24th, 2017|Categories: American Coots, American Oystercatchers, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Ferruginous Hawks, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Madison County, Montana, Nesting Birds, Pinellas County, Utah, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: American Coot, American Oystercatcher, Buteo regalis, chicks, eggs, ethics, Ferruginous Hawk, Fulica americana, Haematopus palliatus, nest, nesting|

Why? Because the image is never as important as the well being and safety of my subject, especially when it comes to nests and chicks.

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Whirlpool of Feeding Northern Shovelers on the Great Salt Lake

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-28T05:54:43-05:00February 2nd, 2016|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Shovelers, Utah|Tags: adult, brine shrimp, close up, comblike, dabbling ducks, duck, ducks, eggs, feeding, feeding behavior, female, flock, Great Salt Lake, hen, lake, lamellae, large bills, marsh, Northern Shoveler, plankton, portrait, raft, rafts, shoveler, shovelers, spatulated, water, waterfowl, wetlands, whirlpool|

It is interesting to see this whirlpool effect of Northern Shovelers on the surface of the Great Salt Lake and to hear the sounds of their bills dabbling in the water.

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A Coyote Doing What Coyotes Do – Eating American Avocet Eggs

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-11T07:38:30-05:00May 31st, 2013|Categories: American Avocets, Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Coyotes, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: American Avocet, behavior, caching, Canis latrans, Coyote, coyotes, eating, eggs, Great Salt Lake, nature, nature photography, nest, Recurvirostra americana, shore, shoreline, wildlife, wildlife photography|

It was a fascinating experience to see and photograph this Coyote locating and eating the egg and I'm tickled to have witnessed the Coyote's egg carrying behavior plus once again I am very glad to have been in the right place at the right time.

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Three and a half months with a young American Oystercatcher

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-08T03:53:31-05:00July 4th, 2012|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Nesting Birds, Pinellas County, Wildlife Ethics & Etiquette|Tags: American Oystercatcher, chicks, comfort zone, dunes, eggs, ethics, family, feeding, foraging, Gulf of Mexico, Haematopus palliatus, immature, juvenile, nest, nest ethics, oystercatcher, oystercatchers, shore, shorebirds, shoreline, water, waves, young|

In 2008 I had the great pleasure of observing and photographing a family of American Oystercatchers from the day after the chicks hatched until three and a half months later.

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Iowa Bald Eagle nest cam

By Mia McPherson|2023-02-20T15:59:40-06:00March 16th, 2011|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: Bald Eagle, bird photography, birds, Decorah, eagle, Eagle nest cam, eagles, eggs, flight, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Iowa, nest, nesting behavior, sky|

Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a link to an Eagle nest cam in Decorah, Iowa that I have been having fun watching so I thought I'd share it.

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Nesting American Oystercatchers

By Mia McPherson|2023-03-03T13:10:23-06:00August 14th, 2010|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Nesting Birds, Pinellas County, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: adult, American Oystercatcher, bird ID, brooding, coastal habitat, eggs, ethics, Haematopus palliatus, nest, nesting, nesting behavior, nesting ethics, oystercatcher, oystercatchers, saltwater, sand dune, scrape, Sea Purslane, settling, shorebirds, wildlife ethics|

Nesting American Oystercatchers create simple scrapes on coastal beaches, dunes and salt marshes to lay their eggs in. They usually lay between 2-3 eggs around April to May.

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