inquisitive – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Male Northern Cardinal Images

By Mia McPherson|2023-07-24T04:17:40-05:00July 24th, 2023|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Northern Cardinals, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, cardinals, driftwood, inquisitive, male, Northern Cardinal, summer, urban, yard|

I don't find cardinals in northern Utah, so I was super excited to take a few male Northern Cardinal photos while I was in Arkansas with my friend Steve Creek.

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Autumn Say’s Phoebe Photos

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-26T07:30:59-05:00September 26th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Say's Phoebes, Utah|Tags: autumn, fall, inquisitive, nest box, perched, phoebe, phoebes, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya, sky, stick, tyrant flycatchers|

Last week I was able to take Say's Phoebe photos at Farmington Bay WMA on two different perches. The first was a nest box, and the second, a tall stick.

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My Great Two Bunting Morning

By Mia McPherson|2023-06-19T14:46:40-05:00July 11th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Indigo Buntings, Lazuli Buntings, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, branch, breeding plumage, bunting, buntings, canyon, Indigo Bunting, inquisitive, Lazuli Bunting, male, mountains, Passerina amoena, Passerina cyanea, perched, riparian habitat, summer|

Late last week I headed up into the Wasatch Mountains to look for birds in cooler temps and had a great time photographing two bunting species before 8 am.

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Irresistible Young Yellow Warbler

By Mia McPherson|2022-07-09T05:15:07-05:00July 9th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: canyon, chick, cute, immature, inquisitive, juvenal plumage, juvenile, mountains, patchy, perched, plumage, riparian habitat, Setophaga petechia, summer, warbler, warblers, willow thicket, willows, wood-warbler, wood-warblers, Yellow Warbler, young|

Yesterday morning I photographed a juvenile Yellow Warbler in the patchy mix of yellow and gray feathers that they only sport for a short time after fledging.

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Semipalmated Plover Images

By Mia McPherson|2021-10-29T06:02:44-05:00October 29th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Semipalmated Plovers|Tags: adult, beach, Charadrius semipalmatus, coast, coastal, head turn, inquisitive, lagoon, low tide, mud, plover, plovers, resting, sand, Semipalmated Plover, shorebirds, summer, walking|

While rifling through my archives I came across some of my Semipalmated Plover photos that I took on the north beach at Fort De Soto County Park in 2008.

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House Wrens Foraging in the Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-26T09:07:59-06:00September 8th, 2018|Categories: Birds, House Wrens, Little Dutch Hollow, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, back view, branches, brush pile, canyon, foraging, forest, forests, House Wren, inquisitive, lichen, mountains, Troglodytes aedon, wren, wrens|

Yesterday morning I was delighted to find two House Wrens foraging in a brush pile in the Wasatch Mountains not long after sunrise. This time of the year the wrens aren't singing like they do in the spring so I have to rely more on my eyes and not on a combination of my eyes and ears to locate them.

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