junipers – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Wild Turkeys in Utah

By Mia McPherson|November 2nd, 2016|Categories: Birds, Dixie National Forest, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, Wayne County, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: canyons, female, hen, junipers, male, pond, tom, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey, woods|

Maybe next time I up in the canyons I will get lucky and spot some of the Wild Turkeys that make their home in the Stansbury Mountains.

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Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay in Ophir Canyon

By Mia McPherson|January 18th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Ophir Canyon, Tooele County, Utah, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays|Tags: adult, Aphelocoma woodhouseii, corvids, desert, jay, jays, junipers, pinyon pine, scrub-jay, scrub-jays, sky island mountains, snow, winter, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay|

A couple Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays in Ophir Canyon Road in Tooele County were the most cooperative of the jays that I found.

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Wild Turkeys In The Stansbury Mountains

By Mia McPherson|October 13th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, Wild Turkeys|Tags: adult, autumn, canyon, close up, fall, junipers, mountains, portrait, sky island mountains, Stansbury Mountains, tom, turkey, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey|

Yesterday while up in one of the canyons of the Stansbury Mountains some movement caught my eye and when I looked closely I could see a small flock of Wild Turkeys in the junipers.

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I Am In Love With This World

By Mia McPherson|December 14th, 2014|Categories: Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: autumn, clouds, desert, fall, foothills, John Burroughs, junipers, moon, mountains, peaks, quote, sage, sagebrush, sky, sky island mountains, snow, trees|

I too have nestled lovingly into this world and climbed its mountains, roamed its forests and sailed its waters.

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Conservation Is A State Of Harmony

By Mia McPherson|October 6th, 2014|Categories: Conservation, Dead Horse Point State Park, Trees, Utah|Tags: Aldo Leopold, conservation, juniper, junipers, Juniperus osteosperma, nature, nature photography, tree, trees, Utah Juniper|

I would love to say that while I am wandering around exploring the natural wonders we have been gifted with that I can forget about the assaults on the land and the creatures that live there but I can't.

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Moon set over the Stansbury Mountains of the West Desert

By Mia McPherson|October 22nd, 2013|Categories: Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, western skies|Tags: autumn, canyons, Cirrus uncinus, fall, junipers, mares tail, moon, moon set, mountains, nature, nature photography, peaks, photography, sage, sagebrush, sky island mountains, trees|

Yesterday while in the West Desert in Tooele County the cirrus clouds appealed to me that fanned out over the Stansbury Mountains.

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Red Fleet State Park, Utah

By Mia McPherson|May 28th, 2012|Categories: Dunes, Red Fleet State Park, Utah|Tags: clouds, dinosaur tracks, dunes, geological formations, junipers, landscape photography, nature photography, Navajo sandstone, outcrops, petrified sand dunes, Red Fleet Reservoir, Red Fleet State Park, reservoir, sky, trees, Utah, Vernal, water|

I recently visited Red Fleet State Park in north-eastern Utah near Vernal and came away with a few landscape images that I liked.

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