prairies – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

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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An Eye For National Bison Day 2020

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-08T05:35:52-06:00November 7th, 2020|Categories: American Bison, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Bison, Bison, Bison bison, buffalo, bull, close up, eating, eye, grasslands, grazing, horn, mammals, portrait, prairies, snow|

Today bison are being reintroduced to lands that they were extirpated from centuries ago and for bison lovers that is cause for celebration of this iconic mammal.

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Long-billed Curlews Have Returned For Their Breeding Season

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-14T15:39:25-05:00March 29th, 2020|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Long-billed Curlews, Utah|Tags: adult, breeding season, close up, Coronavirus crisis, Covid-19 pandemic, curlew, curlews, foraging, grasses, grasslands, Long-billed Curlew, male, mixed grasses, Numenius americanus, prairies, shorebirds|

Two days ago I heard and saw my first of the season Long-billed Curlews while looking for birds to photograph in northern Utah and I could barely contain my excitement.

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Listening for Long-billed Curlews

By Mia McPherson|2020-03-29T10:53:56-05:00March 2nd, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Long-billed Curlews, Pinellas County, Utah|Tags: adult, beach, curlew, curlews, female, grasses, grasslands, handheld, lagoon, Long-billed Curlew, male, marshes, mixed grass prairies, Numenius americanus, playas, prairies, preening, sand, shorebird, shorebirds, spring, wrack line|

The first of March always makes me think of and listen for Long-billed Curlews, our largest shorebird of North America.

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Our Willets have returned

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-25T08:45:01-05:00April 9th, 2014|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Egmont Key State Park, Florida, Pinellas County, Utah, Willets|Tags: adult, grasses, grasslands, Gulf of Mexico, migration, prairies, rocks, sandpipers, shorebirds, Tringa semipalmata, Tringa semipalmata inornata, Tringa semipalmata semipalmata, water, waves, Willet, willets|

Yesterday for the first time this season I saw and heard Willets on Antelope Island State Park.

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