migration – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Soon Willets will be arriving in Utah

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-25T10:02:26-05:00March 9th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Utah, Willets|Tags: adult, breeding behavior, breeding season, calling, courtship display, low light, migration, rock, sandpipers, shorebirds, spring, Tringa semipalmata, Tringa semipalmata inornata, Willet, willets|

March is a month when I begin to anticipate the arrival of Willets, I have been listening carefully for them and hoping to catch sight of them along the causeway to Antelope Island any day now.

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Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Barn Swallow

By Mia McPherson|2022-03-05T10:28:08-06:00February 3rd, 2013|Categories: Barn Swallows, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Midges, Utah|Tags: adult, Barn Swallow, Chironomidae, Hirundo rustica, male, marsh, midges, migration, perched, swallow, swallows, wetlands|

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge has five species of swallows, they are Tree, Northern Rough-winged, Violet-green, Cliff and Barn Swallows.

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Mountain Bluebird Male

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-28T17:08:50-05:00March 21st, 2012|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Montana, Mountain Bluebirds, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bluebird, bluebirds, fence post, male, migration, Mountain Bluebird, north, perched, Sialia currucoides, thrush, thrushes, valley, wooden post|

How blue can blue be? I think Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoide) males are a wonderful example of just how blue a bird can be.

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Cackling Goose

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-21T04:20:12-05:00April 27th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Cackling Geese, Davis County, Utah|Tags: bird ID, bird photography, birds, Branta hutchinsii, Cackling Goose, Davis County, lifer, migration, nature photography, Utah, water fowl, wildlife photography|

Last week I spotted a bird that isn't usually here in Utah this late in migration, a Cackling Goose.

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