post – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

American Barn Owl Image Choices

By Mia McPherson|January 16th, 2013|Categories: American Barn Owls, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Barn Owl, birding, birds of prey, black and white, high key, marsh, owl, owls, perched, post, snow, Tyto furcata, wetlands, winter|

I photographed this perched Barn Owl yesterday at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area in northern Utah near a hill that was covered in snow which gave this image a high key effect.

Common Gallinule adult

By Mia McPherson|August 21st, 2012|Categories: Birds, Common Gallinules, Florida, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, bird photography, Common Gallinule, Common Moorhen, Gallinula galeata, post|

Not that long ago Common Gallinules (Gallinula galeata) were called Common Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus), it will take me some time to get used to the new name.

Cooperative Rough-legged Hawk Preening

By Mia McPherson|November 30th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: Antelope Island State Park, back view, birds of prey, buteo, Buteo lagopus, Buteos, comical, feet, funny, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, light morph, perched, post, preening, raptors, regal, Rough-legged Hawk, side view, wooden post|

Last week though I had the opportunity to photograph a very cooperative Rough-legged Hawk preening.