missing – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

I Am Missing This Cooperative Rough-legged Hawk

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-09T05:58:30-06:00January 9th, 2024|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: admired, adored, adult, birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, Buteos, close up, dawn, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, light morph, male, marsh, missing, portrait, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, sky, wetlands, winter|

Once upon a time, and not so long ago, I could count on seeing this light-morph Rough-legged Hawk at a specific area of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge tour route.

Puzzling Absence Of Double-crested Cormorants This Winter At My Local Ponds

By Mia McPherson|2023-03-23T16:18:06-05:00February 18th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Double-crested Cormorants, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: absence, adult, cormorant, cormorants, Double-crested Cormorant, missing, Nannopterum auritus, odd, overwinter, overwintering, pond, puzzling, resting, snow, urban, water, winter|

Every winter since I moved to northern Utah in 2009 I have found a few Double-crested Cormorants overwintering at my local ponds but this winter has been very different.

Pair of Coyotes and a Missing Canine Tooth

By Mia McPherson|2023-01-02T15:31:44-06:00April 28th, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Coyotes, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: adult, canine tooth, Canis latrans, Coyote, coyotes, Davis County, grassses, mates, missing, nature photography, pair, sagebrush, spring, tooth, wildlife, yawning|

I saw two Coyotes right after arriving on Antelope Island yesterday that were bathed in the soft light of dawn, I can't resist taking images of the beautiful "Song Dogs" that I see and I couldn't resist this pair.