nose – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Roadside American Badger in The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2023-11-16T06:48:29-06:00October 11th, 2022|Categories: American Badgers, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildlife|Tags: American Badger, autumn, badger, badger burrow, badgers, butt, canyon, digging, dirty, fall, head on, hole, mammals, morning, morning light, mountains, mustelids, nose, peek-a-boo, roadside, scratch, sniffing, Taxidea taxus, turning|

My best photos from yesterday's journey into the Wasatch Mountains weren't of birds; instead, they were of an American Badger I found along the side of the road.

Adult Uinta Ground Squirrel Photos

By Mia McPherson|2022-07-03T03:30:22-05:00July 3rd, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, attention, background, canyon, close up, eating, gnarly, grass, grasses, green, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, mammals, mountains, muddy, nibbling, nose, portrait, sagebrush, silky, spring, squirrel, squirrels, standing, stump, summer, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus|

This morning I'm sharing some adult Uinta Ground Squirrel photos that were taken high in the Wasatch Mountains over the past month that I like a lot.

An Injured Long-tailed Weasel and a Snowy Egret Entangled in Rope

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-02T18:58:26-05:00August 26th, 2015|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Long-tailed Weasels, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, burrow, close up, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, entangled, gash, healed, injured, injury, Long-tailed Weasel, marsh, Mustela frenata, nose, portrait, road, rope, Snowy Egret, tangled, weasel, weasels|

And this one of the Long-tailed Weasel at the side of the road that shows its face, dark eyes and cute rounded ears but it also shows that the weasel appears to be injured on the left of its nose.