fluffing – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

American Oystercatcher Images From Florida

By Mia McPherson|August 29th, 2025|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Egmont Key State Park, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, American Oystercatcher, beach, calling, chick, coastal island, crest, feathers, feeding, flight, fluffing, flying, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Himantopus mexicanus, immature, juvenile, landing, mated, mates, pair, preening, prey, probing, sand, sand bar, swallowing, water, waves, worm, wrack line, young|

I am sharing a group of American Oystercatcher photos today that were taken at Fort De Soto County Park and Egmont Key from when I lived in Florida.

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Summer Vesper Sparrow Photos

By Mia McPherson|July 7th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Summit County, Utah, Vesper Sparrows, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, canyon, feathers, fence post, fluffing, fluffy, itch, looking, mountains, perched, Poocetes gramineus, scratching, singing, sparrow, sparrows, summer, Vesper Sparrow, wooden post|

Today my post is focused on a little brown bird with a wonderful song I photographed yesterday in the Wasatch Mountains. The LBB was a handsome Vesper Sparrow.

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Photographing An American Coot’s Post Bathing Behavior

By Mia McPherson|January 10th, 2018|Categories: American Coots, Birds, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: American Coot, bath, bathing, behavior, coot, coots, fluffing, Fulica americana, gruiformes, park, photograph, photographing, pond, shaking, splashing, sunny, urban, water, wings, winter|

Perhaps I am easy to please but I got a real kick out of photographing this American Coot while it bathed, shook and fluffed on the pond close to home.

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Tricolored Heron Fishing & Fluffing in the Gulf of Mexico

By Mia McPherson|October 6th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Tricolored Herons|Tags: adult, autumn, coastal, eating, Egretta tricolor, fall, fishing, fluffing, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, heron, herons, nonbreeding plumage, prey, Tricolored Heron, wading birds, waves|

Seven years ago I could be found most often walking along the Gulf of Mexico at Fort De Soto County Park's north beach in search of birds to photograph.

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Centennial Valley Bathing Vesper Sparrows

By Mia McPherson|September 15th, 2014|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Vesper Sparrows|Tags: adult, bath, bathing, Bay-winged buntings, bird photography, fluffing, fluttering, Poocetes gramineus, sagebrush steppe, sparrow, sparrows, splashing, spring, valley, Vesper Sparrow, water|

A Vesper Sparrow caught my eye last week as it fluttered and fluffed on an old barb wire fence near the road and I just had to photograph it.

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