puffed up – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Western Meadowlark Amusement

By Mia McPherson|2023-11-02T03:28:19-05:00November 2nd, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Western Meadowlarks|Tags: autumn, back view, fall, feathers, flipped, frontal view, head on, head turn, meadowlark, meadowlarks, old lake bottom, perched, profile view, puffed up, ranchlands, roadside, scrunched down, side view, sideways, sky, squatting, Sturnella neglecta, Western Meadowlark, wooden post|

Photographing this Western Meadowlark on Monday on my way back to I-15 from Bear River MBR was so much fun for me that it probably ought to be illegal.

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Greater-Sage Grouse Leks In March

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-26T10:37:43-05:00March 8th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Greater Sage-Grouse, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, battle, breeding behavior, breeding display, breeding grounds, breeding season, calling, Centrocercus urophasianus, displaying, early morning, face off, facing off, fight, Greater Sage-Grouse, grouse, lek, male, mate, pops, puffed up, sage-grouse, sounds, spar, sunrise, whistles|

March is a time when my mind wanders to windswept, high country sagebrush steppes where Greater-Sage Grouse will dance, fight and court on their leks as they have done for eons.

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Puffed Up Song Sparrow On Natural And Man Made Perches

By Mia McPherson|2021-06-12T11:15:20-05:00December 15th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Song Sparrows, Utah|Tags: adult, branch, fence rail, frost, frosted, frosty, man made, Melospiza melodia, natural, puffed up, Song Sparrow, sparrow, sparrows, winter|

These two Song Sparrow photos are a reminder to me that sometimes having man made objects in my photos isn't such a bad thing, it is just a matter of personal tastes.

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Male American Kestrel Resting and Preening – One Good Bird Can Make the Day

By Mia McPherson|2022-12-10T08:57:55-06:00February 9th, 2017|Categories: American Kestrels, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Kestrel, bill open, birds of prey, Falco sparverius, falcon, falcons, kestrel, kestrels, male, marsh, on one leg, preening, puffed up, resting, rock, wetlands, winter|

I have mentioned before how one good bird can make a day and yesterday that bird was a male American Kestrel resting and preening at Farmington Bay WMA.

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