Johnson Grass – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Eastern Meadowlark Photos From Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|January 10th, 2026|Categories: Birds, Eastern Meadowlarks, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: bottomlands, Eastern Meadowlark, field, foraging, Icterids, Johnson Grass, meadowlark, meadowlarks, nonbreeding plumage, phragmites, prey, Sturnella magna, winter|

While I was at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge yesterday, I was delighted to photograph an Eastern Meadowlark as the bird foraged in a field in morning light.

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Cooperative Pearl Crescent Butterfly At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|August 22nd, 2025|Categories: Oklahoma, Pearl Crescent Butterflies, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forest, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, cooperative, crescent, crescents, Johnson Grass, Pearl Crescent, Pearl Crescent butterfly, Phyciodes tharos, resting, summer|

While walking one of the side roads at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge yesterday, I found a cooperative resting Pearl Crescent butterfly.

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Resting Pearl Crescent Butterfly

By Mia McPherson|July 9th, 2025|Categories: Oklahoma, Pearl Crescent Butterflies, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: bottomland hardwood forest, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, crescent, crescents, Johnson Grass, Pearl Crescent, Pearl Crescent butterfly, Phyciodes tharos, resting, summer|

Pearl Crescent butterfly patterns can vary quite a bit, which makes them a little more fun to figure out.

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More New Butterflies At Sequoyah NWR!

By Mia McPherson|August 16th, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Silver-spotted Skipper Butterflies, Spicebush Swallowtail Butterflies, Viceroy Butterflies|Tags: adult, Arkansas River, Battus philenor, Bog Smartweed, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, Epargyreus clarus, grass, grasses, insects, Johnson Grass, Limenitis archippus, nectaring, Nekemias arborea, Papilio troilus, Peppervine, Persicaria setacea, Pipevine Swallowtail, Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, river, riverbank, Silver-spotted Skipper, Silver-spotted Skipper butterfly, skipper, skippers, Sorghum halepense, Spicebush Swallowtail, Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly, summer, swallowtail, swallowtails, Viceroy, Viceroy butterfly, Viceroys, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

Yesterday, when I shared the pale young Raccoon, I mentioned that I also photographed some butterflies at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. Here they are!

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Green Tree Frog Photos – Green On Green

By Mia McPherson|August 6th, 2024|Categories: American Green Tree Frogs, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: American Green Tree Frog, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, frog, frogs, grass, Green Tree Frog, hidden, Hyla cinerea, Johnson Grass, summer, tree frog, tree frogs|

Today's theme is green on green! These two Green Tree Frog images show different individual tree frogs, but both were on vibrant green grasses at Sequoyah NWR.

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Differential And Two-striped Grasshopper Images

By Mia McPherson|July 28th, 2024|Categories: Differential Grasshoppers, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Two-striped Grasshoppers|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, breeding, Differential Grasshopper, grass, grasses, grasshopper, grasshoppers, insects, Johnson Grass, mates, mating, Melanoplus bivittatus, Melanoplus differentialis, Sorghum halepense, summer, Two-striped Grasshopper|

Let's hop right into the photos I am sharing today! I took Differential and Two-striped Grasshopper images while walking around Sequoyah NWR with Steve Creek.

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Lifer Western Ribbon Snake At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|July 25th, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Western Ribbon Snakes|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, close up, grass, grasses, head on, Johnson Grass, portrait, reptiles, ribbon snake, ribbon snakes, snake, snakes, Sorghum halepense, summer, Thamnophis proximus, Western Ribbon Snake|

Yesterday morning, I took my lifer Western Ribbon Snake photos at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. These ribbon snakes are small, I almost missed spotting it!

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Itty Bitty American Green Tree Frog Pictures

By Mia McPherson|July 23rd, 2024|Categories: American Green Tree Frogs, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: American Green Tree Frog, amphibians, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, frog, frogs, grass, grasses, Green Tree Frog, Hyla cinerea, immature, itty bitty, Johnson Grass, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Sorghum halepense, summer, tree frog, tree frogs, young|

I'm sticking with the green theme today. Earlier this morning, it was Green Heron images; now, it's itty bitty Green Tree Frog photos from Sequoyah NWR.

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Some Kind Of Land Snail At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|June 27th, 2023|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Snails|Tags: bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, Gastropods, grass, introduced, Johnson Grass, Land Snail, land snails, snail, snails, Sorghum halepense, spring, terrestrial mollusks|

Eagle-eye Steve spotted this land snail at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge nearly hidden in the Johnson Grass. It was so pretty I had to photograph it.

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