eye – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Female Great-tailed Grackle Iris Variation

By Mia McPherson|2023-04-23T04:45:59-05:00April 23rd, 2023|Categories: Birds, Great-tailed Grackles, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, blackbirds, close up, eye, eyes, female, First Spring, grackle, grackles, Great-tailed Grackle, iris, park, portrait, Quiscalus mexicanus, Salt Lake County, spring, urban, Utah, variation|

While I photographed Common Loons at my local park this month I also took some female Great-tailed Grackle images and today I am sharing two of them.

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Migrating Common Loon Photos

By Mia McPherson|2023-04-22T03:06:54-05:00April 22nd, 2023|Categories: Birds, Common Loons, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, breeding plumage, Common Loon, cute, drinking, droplets, eye, flapping, foot, Gavia immer, head tilt, loon, loons, park, pond, raised, red, Salt Lake County, sneaking, splashing, spring, stretching, swimming, urban, Utah, water, waterbirds, wing lift, wings|

I went through more of the Common Loon photos that I have taken since the beginning of this month. I wanted to share more images of these beautiful birds.

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Lesser And Greater Yellowlegs Comparison

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-17T03:15:27-05:00September 17th, 2022|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Utah|Tags: calls, comparison, duckweed, duckweeds, eye, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, marsh, nares, pond, shallow, shorebirds, sky, standing, summer, Tringa flavipes, Tringa melanoleuca, water, wetlands, yellowlegs|

On Monday, I photographed both Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs foraging in a shallow duckweed-covered pond at Farmington Bay WMA early in the morning.

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Canada Goose In Flight – My First Bird Sighting Of 2022

By Mia McPherson|2022-01-02T05:20:56-06:00January 2nd, 2022|Categories: Birds, Canada Geese, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Branta canadensis, Canada Goose, close up, eye, flight, flying, geese, goose, landing, mountains, portrait, skimming, small in frame, snow, snowy, staring, tree, urban, Wasatch Mountains, water, waterfowl, winter|

The first bird that I could positively identify seeing for 2022 was a Canada Goose flying away from my local pond yesterday morning.

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An Eye For National Bison Day 2020

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-08T05:35:52-06:00November 7th, 2020|Categories: American Bison, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Bison, Bison, Bison bison, buffalo, bull, close up, eating, eye, grasslands, grazing, horn, mammals, portrait, prairies, snow|

Today bison are being reintroduced to lands that they were extirpated from centuries ago and for bison lovers that is cause for celebration of this iconic mammal.

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Rock Squirrel Close Up In A Fragrant Sumac Shrub

By Mia McPherson|2023-04-11T04:53:09-05:00September 28th, 2020|Categories: Rock Squirrels, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, branch, desert, eye, forest, Fragrant Sumac, grasping, mountains, Otospermophilus variegatus, Rhus aromatica, Rock Squirrel, shrub, sky island mountains, squirrel, squirrels, sumac, sumacs, summer|

The Rock Squirrel was grasping a sumac branch and the shrub was so close to me I wasn't even sure I was going to be able to focus on it.

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Least Chipmunk With An Eye Issue

By Mia McPherson|2022-08-16T04:11:19-05:00May 7th, 2020|Categories: Least Chipmunks, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: canyon, cataract, cataracts, chipmunk, chipmunks, cornea, corneal damage, eye, eye issue, injured eye, Least Chipmunk, mountains, Neotamias minimus, spring, Utah|

This Least Chipmunk was climbing in the shrubs and foraging on unopened flower buds when its right eye caught my eyes.

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Resting Canada Goose Close Up In Salt Lake County

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-13T15:33:28-06:00March 6th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Canada Geese, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Branta canadensis, Canada Goose, close up, eye, geese, goose, pond, portrait, resting, urban, water, waterfowl, winter|

Yesterday while photographing the birds at my local pond this resting Canada Goose caught my eye because of the bright blue water behind it and the great view I had of the eye of the goose while it had its bill tucked under its feathers.

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Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk Giving Me the Eye

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-24T12:45:52-05:00August 9th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: bird of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, close up, desert, eye, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, juvenile, perched, portrait, ranchlands, raptors, red tail, Red-tailed Hawk, summer, young|

This juvenile Red-tailed Hawk may have looked like it was giving me the eye when I photographed it but it was actually looking for one of its parents to bring it some food.

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American Bison Tears

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-08T16:22:42-06:00March 31st, 2017|Categories: American Bison, Antelope Island State Park, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: adult, American Bison, Bison bison, buffalo, bull, climate change, close up, desert island, extinction, eye, male, National Bison Legacy Act, spring, tears|

In this American Bison's tears I saw my own tears and deep concerns for what is happening to our environment now and the potential threats that future generations will have to face if we don't take action today.

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Semipalmated Plover with its eye on me

By Mia McPherson|2021-10-29T05:26:36-05:00October 24th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Semipalmated Plovers|Tags: adult, Charadrius semipalmatus, coast, coastal, eye, Gulf of Mexico, plover, plovers, sand, Semipalmated Plover, shore, shorebird, summer, wet|

This morning I wanted to keep my post simple and how much more simple could this image of a Semipalmated Plover with its eye on me be?

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