hazy – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Christmas Day American Kestrel

By Mia McPherson|December 25th, 2022|Categories: American Kestrels, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, afternoon, American Kestrel, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, clouds, Falco sparverius, falcon, falcons, Falcons of Utah, haze, hazy, male, marsh, mountains, peaks, perched, sky, snow, Wasatch Mountain Range, Wasatch Mountains, wetlands, winter, winter inversion, wooden post|

I photographed this Christmas Day American Kestrel in 2020 at Farmington Bay WMA. That Christmas Day was bright and sunny, today isn't going to be at all.

Northern Yellow Warbler Photographed In A Smoky Haze

By Mia McPherson|July 27th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Northern Yellow Warblers, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: branch, canyon, female/immature, hazy, hop, hopped, lichen, lichen encrusted, mountains, moving, Northern Yellow Warbler, riparian habitat, Setophaga aestiva, smoky, summer, Summit County, tilted head, Utah, warbler, warblers, Wasatch Mountains|

Yesterday morning the second bird I photographed was a Northern Yellow Warbler on an old branch in a smoky haze high in the Wasatch Mountains.

Photographing Bald Eagles At Farmington Bay WMA During An Inversion

By Mia McPherson|December 10th, 2020|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Cooper’s Hawks, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: adult, air pollition, Antelope Island, Astur cooperii, Bald Eagle, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Circus hudsonius, Cooper’s Hawk, eagle, eagles, EPA, flight, flying, government, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, hawk, hawks, hazy, hazy sky, ice, inversion, inversions, marsh, Northern Harrier, on the wing, perched, polluted sky, pollution, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, sky, tree, turning, winter|

Think carefully before you make a trip to Utah to photograph our overwintering Bald Eagles in the valley. The inversions are awful and can be life threatening.