fly by – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Adult Golden Eagle Close Up

By Mia McPherson|2023-11-12T07:48:15-06:00February 13th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Golden Eagles, Utah|Tags: adult, Aquila chrysaetos, blue sky, close up, eagle, eagles, flight, fly by, flying, Golden Eagle, raptors, sky, winter|

One year ago this morning spotting and photographing this adult Golden Eagle at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge was the highlight of an otherwise crappy day.

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Winter Has Arrived Along With Many Opportunities To Photograph Birds

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-17T09:16:10-06:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Common Goldeneyes, Hooded Mergansers, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Bucephala clangula, close up, Common Goldeneye, diving duck, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, evening light, flight, fly by, flying, goldeneye, goldeneyes, gull, gulls, Hooded Merganser, Larus delawarensis, Lophodytes cucullatus, male, merganser, mergansers, pond, portrait, Ring-billed Gull, snow, snow storm, snowflakes, snowstorm, sunset, waterfowl, winter|

When the weather turns colder, the clouds gather, and the snow falls I still have plenty of birds to photograph here in northern Utah.

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Adult Female Northern Harrier On The Wing Over Farmington Bay WMA

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-10T03:48:40-05:00November 3rd, 2020|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Circus hudsonius, female, flight, fly by, flying, harrier, harriers, hawks, Hawks of Utah, marsh, Marsh Hawks, Northern Harrier, on the wing, raptors, sky|

It has been too long since I have had a Northern Harrier in my viewfinder although I'm now excited because I know that fall and winter are great seasons for me to find and photograph them.

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Tundra Swans Are Showing Up In Northern Utah

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-20T10:30:01-05:00October 21st, 2020|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Tundra Swans, Utah|Tags: adult, clouds, Cygnus columbianus, flight, flock, fly by, flying, immature, marsh, mountains, phragmites, phrags, sky, swan, swans, Tundra Swan, Tundra Swans, waterfowl, winter|

I can barely wait to hear and see my first of season Tundra Swans and to see them on the wing over the marshes that surround the Great Salt Lake.

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Red-tailed Hawk fly by

By Mia McPherson|2021-11-14T04:38:52-06:00December 23rd, 2012|Categories: Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: Buteo jamaicensis, flight, fly by, flying, hawk, hawks, immature, juvenile, Red-tailed Hawk, sky, Utah|

I photographed this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk flying by last month at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area in Davis County.

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Black-crowned Night Heron fly by

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-05T14:54:09-05:00July 10th, 2012|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Black-crowned Night Herons, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: adult, Black-crowned Night Heron, flight, fly by, flying, heron, herons, night heron, night herons, Nycticorax nycticorax, sky, wading bird|

I spent yesterday morning photographing at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Box Elder County, Utah. Black-crowned Night Herons seemed to be everywhere on the south side of the auto tour loop, both adults and hatch year birds.

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Birds of Bear River MBR – American White Pelicans

By Mia McPherson|2023-12-20T09:07:25-06:00June 7th, 2012|Categories: American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: adult, American White Pelican, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, flight, fly by, flying, marsh, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, pelican, pelicans, sky, spring, wetlands, white pelicans|

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is an excellent location for finding and photographing American White Pelicans who have wing spans of over nine feet.

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