evening – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Colorful Twilight Sky

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-12T05:45:49-05:00September 12th, 2021|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: beauty, clouds, colorful, evening, fence, grasses, lake, light, marsh, mountains, pastels, peaceful, relaxed, sky, summer, sunset, twilight, valley, vivid, wetlands|

I don't have much to say today and all I really wanted to do was share this photo of a colorful twilight I took at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge about 6 years ago.

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White-tailed Prairie Dog At Sunset

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-15T06:53:38-05:00March 13th, 2021|Categories: Utah, Wayne County, White-tailed Prairie Dogs, Wildlife|Tags: adult, Aquarius Plateau, Cynomys leucurus, desert, desert plateau, evening, mammals, prairie dog, prairie dogs, spring, sunset, White-tailed Prairie Dog|

March means spring to me and there are signs of spring that I look for. The first of year sighting of a White-tailed Prairie Dog is a sign of spring for me.

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In Every Sunset There Is A Promise And A Gift From Nature

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-12T04:27:39-05:00August 23rd, 2020|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: clouds, evening, evening light, grasses, hills, lake, Lower Lake, lower lake campground, marsh, mountains, sky, sunset, water, wetlands|

Throughout my life I have liked to think that every sunset has a promise and a gift from Nature in it. The promise that the sun will rise again in the morning.

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Focusing On Winter Redheads

By Mia McPherson|2023-12-17T11:22:25-06:00December 11th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Redheads, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: aquatic vegetation, Aythya americana, diving ducks, duck, ducks, evening, feeding, first winter, late evening, low light, pond, Redhead, redhead ducks, redheads, resting, water|

Why were the mallards sticking close to this Redhead? That was because she was diving down into the pond and bringing up aquatic vegetation to feed on and the mallards were stealing bits of it from her.

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Gone Wandering

By Mia McPherson|2022-10-02T07:23:10-05:00April 17th, 2019|Categories: Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: camp site, campsite, clearing storm, clouds, evening, fire ring, mountains, stormy sky, wandering|

I am out wandering and I have a very poor cell signal so I will be surprised if this gets published. This is a photo taken before Sunset last night where I am camping.

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Colorful Sunset at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-12T04:29:54-05:00September 8th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: clouds, colorful clouds, evening, lake, marsh, mountains, pink clouds, sky, sun set, sunset, valley, wetlands|

Watching a colorful sunset at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge fade to the darkness of night is a gift. A wonderful, priceless gift.

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Cooperative Vesper Sparrow in Montana

By Mia McPherson|2023-08-31T05:45:23-05:00June 8th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Vesper Sparrows, Video|Tags: evening, Greasewood, perched, Poocetes gramineus, scenery, singing, song, sparrow, sparrows, Vesper Sparrow, video|

Five evenings ago I was able to photograph a cooperative Vesper Sparrow in Montana's Centennial Valley.

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Friday Photos: Greater Yellowlegs

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-17T05:35:24-05:00June 17th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Greater Yellowlegs, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, coast, coastal, evening, Greater Yellowlegs, lagoon, Low angle, resting, rising sun, shore, shorebirds, shoreline, Tringa melanolueca, water, yellowlegs|

When looking at a Greater Yellowlegs there is NO mistaking how they got the name "Yellowlegs".

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Evening Parasailers over St. Thomas

By Mia McPherson|2016-12-07T12:15:16-06:00November 8th, 2010|Categories: St. Thomas|Tags: evening, parasailing, scenic, St. Thomas, sunset|

I was sailing out of St. Thomas at sunset when these parasailers caught my eye and fortunately I had my camera in hand with a wide angle lens attached.

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