phoebe – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Eastern Phoebe In Oklahoma

By Mia McPherson|2023-07-10T04:36:52-05:00July 10th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Eastern Phoebes, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, branches, Eastern Phoebe, food, grasshopper, perched, phoebe, phoebes, prey, Sayornis phoebe, spring, tyrant flycatchers|

I have to say that I was thrilled to photograph this Eastern Phoebe with prey last month while I was visiting Arkansas and Sequoyah NWR in northeast Oklahoma.

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I’m Lichen This Say’s Phoebe

By Mia McPherson|2023-04-20T04:02:11-05:00April 20th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Say's Phoebes, Utah|Tags: adult, cliff, cliff face, desert, lichen, lichens, phoebe, phoebes, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya, spring|

I photographed this Say's Phoebe yesterday morning way up in northern Utah. There were actually two of the phoebes in the area but this one came in the closest.

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Autumn Say’s Phoebe Photos

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-26T07:30:59-05:00September 26th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Say's Phoebes, Utah|Tags: autumn, fall, inquisitive, nest box, perched, phoebe, phoebes, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya, sky, stick, tyrant flycatchers|

Last week I was able to take Say's Phoebe photos at Farmington Bay WMA on two different perches. The first was a nest box, and the second, a tall stick.

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Low Light Singing Say’s Phoebe

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-01T05:38:20-05:00April 1st, 2022|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Say's Phoebes, Utah|Tags: adult, Davis County, desert island, flycatcher, flycatchers, head on, honorific names, low light, morning, perched, phoebe, phoebes, racism, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya, singing, spring, tyrant flycatchers|

Listening to an adult Say's Phoebe singing in low light on Antelope Island State Park two days ago was a true auditory delight for my ears.

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Say’s Phoebe In Sage

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-01T04:43:28-05:00June 11th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Say's Phoebes, Utah|Tags: adult, Artemisia tridentata, Big Sagebrush, desert, eponymous common names, flycatcher, flycatchers, honorific common names, lift off, lifting off, perched, phoebe, phoebes, precariously, sage, sagebrush, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya, spring, take off, taking off, tyrant flycatchers|

I think Rufous-bellied Phoebe would be a great name instead of Say's Phoebe, with or without the hyphen. It is certainly more descriptive.

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Say’s Phoebe – A Bird I Listen For In March

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-09T06:40:34-06:00March 9th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Say's Phoebes, Utah|Tags: adult, barbed wire, calls, cliffs, desert, farms, fence, flycatcher, flycatchers, grasslands, hilsides, mountain canyons, perched, phoebe, phoebes, prairies, ranches, rocky cliffs, sage, sagebrush, sagebrush steppe, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya, songs, tyrant flycatchers|

The calls of a Say's Phoebe are among the sounds I listen for in March and they are the first members of the tyrant flycatcher family I see each year in northern Utah.

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Say’s Phoebes And Sagebrush

By Mia McPherson|2021-06-11T04:15:41-05:00June 12th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Habitat, Say's Phoebes, Shrubs, Utah|Tags: adult, Artemisia tridentata, barbed wire, Big Sagebrush, Box Elder County, desert, fence, fence post, flycatcher, flycatchers, foraging, hunting, landing, nest, perched, phoebe, phoebes, sage, sagebrush, Say's Phoebe, spring, tyrant flycatchers, Utah, young|

Over time I have come to associate Say's Phoebes with sagebrush because I don't think I have ever seen or photographed one of these phoebes where there wasn't sage nearby here in northern Utah.

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Immature Say’s Phoebe In Northern Utah

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-09T06:55:59-06:00June 16th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Say's Phoebes, Utah|Tags: barbed wire, fence, flycatcher, flycatchers, immature, juvenile, perched, phoebe, phoebes, sagebrush habitat, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya, young|

It is always a thrill for me to photograph Say's Phoebes so when I spotted a family group of them yesterday morning in northern Utah I was delighted.

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Nest Building Say’s Phoebe

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-01T04:24:14-05:00May 23rd, 2016|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Say's Phoebes, Utah|Tags: adult, flycatcher, flycatchers, nest building, nesting behavior, nesting material, phoebe, phoebes, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya|

I photographed a nest building Say's Phoebe trying to separate a clump of grass and mud, or perhaps bison manure, by holding it in its bill and beating it on the ground.

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West Desert Medley of Birds

By Mia McPherson|2024-04-05T04:51:48-05:00April 22nd, 2015|Categories: Birds, Cassin's Finches, Chipping Sparrows, Horned Larks, Red-tailed Hawks, Say's Phoebes, Spotted Towhees, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: bird photography, birds, Buteo jamaicensis, Cassin's Finch, Chipping Sparrow, Eremophila alpestris, finch, finches, Haemorhous cassinii, hawk, hawks, Horned Lark, lark, larks, phobes, phoebe, Pipilo maculatus, Red-tailed Hawk, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya, sparows, sparrow, Spizella passerina, Spotted Towhee, towhee, towhees|

Yesterday was a delight in the West Desert because there were plentiful birds to photograph including this male Spotted Towhee singing on its territory.

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Monday Mornings Medley of Birds on Antelope Island

By Mia McPherson|2022-03-13T09:52:03-05:00May 13th, 2014|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Burrowing Owls, Chukars, Davis County, Horned Larks, Red-tailed Hawks, Sage Thrashers, Say's Phoebes, Utah, Western Kingbirds|Tags: Alectoris chukar, Athene cunicularia, birds of prey, Burrowing Owl, Buteo jamaicensis, Chukar, desert island, Eremophila alpestris, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, Horned Lark, kingbird, kingbirds, lark, larks, Oreoscoptes montanus, owl, owls, phoebe, phoebes, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, Sage Thrasher, Say's Phoebe, Sayornis saya, spring, thrasher, thrashers, Tyrannus verticalis, Western Kingbird|

Western Kingbird After several days of not being able to photograph birds because of bad weather I was pleasantly surprised to have a medley of birds to photograph on Antelope Island Monday.

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