shrubs – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Foggy Start To An April Morning At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|2024-04-17T18:50:23-05:00April 18th, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, White-tailed Deer|Tags: adult, blackbird, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, clouds, deer, dirt, doe, female, field, fog, foggy, forest, heavy fog, mammals, morning, Odocoileus virginianus, refuge, rolling in, shrubs, sky, spring, tree, trees, White-tailed Deer|

Yesterday, there was a foggy start to a morning of bird and wildlife photography at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. I really didn't mind the fog much at all.

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Show Your Love – Don’t Let Balloons Go

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-14T04:51:57-06:00February 14th, 2024|Categories: Conservation, Environment, Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: balloon, balloons, bird dangers, danger, dangerous, entanglement, hazard, hazardous, ingest, Jordan River, mylar balloons, shrubs, strings, tangled, urban, wildlife dangers, winter|

Last Sunday I went to some local spots to look for birds. As I was driving, I saw four mylar balloons stuck in some shrubs near the Jordan River. My heart sank.

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Hydrangea Just Starting To Bloom In May

By Mia McPherson|2023-05-23T01:56:13-05:00May 23rd, 2023|Categories: Shrubs|Tags: bloom, blooming, cultivar, flowering, flowering shrub, flowers, green, hydrangea, hydrangeas, lianas, pH, purple, shrubs, spring, trees|

I was glad I had my cell phone handy to photograph this hydrangea just starting to bloom when I had no other camera handy.

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World Water Day 2023

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-02T05:37:24-06:00March 22nd, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Centennial Valley, Conservation, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, Glacier County, Glacier National Park, Juab County, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Sawgrass Lake Park, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, American Coots, aspens, Box Elder County, canyon, Centennial Mountains, Centennial Valley, clouds, conifers, coots, creek, Cygnus columbianus, Fish Springs Range, flight, flock, Florida, flying, footbridge, foothills, grass, grasses, hills, ice, immature, Juab County, maple swamp, marsh, mountains, Pinellas County, pond, Promontory Mountains, rapids, reflections, river, rocks, rushing, sage, sagebrush, Sawgrass Lake Park, shadows, shrubs, sky, snow, snow-topped, spring, summer, swamp, swan, swans, trail, trees, Tundra Swan, Utah, valley, water, waterfowl, west desert, wetlands, Wigeon Pond, willows, winter, young|

Today is World Water Day. The theme for World Water Day 2023 is: Accelerate Change. Every human being on this planet is roughly 60% water.

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Communing With Sandhill Cranes

By Mia McPherson|2023-03-13T05:47:19-05:00March 13th, 2023|Categories: Bicknell Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Birds, Sandhill Cranes, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, Antigone canadensis, buttes, clouds, crane, cranes, dancing, dawn, farmlands, fields, migration, morning, pair, pastel, red rocks, road, rocks, Sandhill Crane, shrubs, sky, spring migration, sunrise, winter|

I've been thinking a lot about Sandhill Cranes recently so I am going back in time to nine years ago today when I photographed them in Wayne County, Utah.

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Two Cow Elk Grazing In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-05T03:28:35-05:00June 27th, 2022|Categories: Elk, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, canyon, Cervus canadensis, cow, eating, Elk, female, grass, grasses, grazing, hillside, looking, mammals, mountains, sage, sagebrush, shrubs, summer|

Yesterday morning I was treated to seeing and photographing two cow Elk grazing on a grass and shrub covered hillside in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Woodland Coyote Watching Me Watching Him

By Mia McPherson|2022-05-24T04:22:22-05:00May 24th, 2022|Categories: Coyotes, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, aspen, aspens, Canis latrans, canyon, Coyote, coyotes, forest, forest edge, grasses, male, mammals, mountains, pee, peeing, piddled, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, shrubs, spring, trees, Wasatch Mountains, watching, woodland|

While I photographed hummingbirds last week high in the Wasatch Mountains I also took images of an adult male woodland Coyote watching me watching him.

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Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers And A Butterfly

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-09T04:59:37-06:00May 23rd, 2021|Categories: California Tortoiseshell Butterflies, Shrubs, Tooele County, Trees, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Abies concolor, aspen, aspens, bloom, blooming, blossoms, butterflies, butterfly, California Tortoiseshell butterfly, cone, cones, currant, currants, Douglas fir, fir, firs, Gray's Biscuitroot, Hydrophyllum occidentale, Lomatium grayi, Nymphalis californica, Populus tremuloides, prunus, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quaking Aspen, Ribes cereum, shrubs, spring, trees, Wax Currant, Western Chokecherry, Western Waterleaf, White Fir|

On a recent trip to the West Desert sky island mountains in Tooele County I found my lens pointed at trees, shrubs, wildflowers and a butterfly.

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Broad-tailed Hummingbird Bliss in The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-16T03:54:40-05:00June 1st, 2019|Categories: Birds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Morgan County, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Black Twin Berry, Black twinberry honeysuckle, blooming, blooms, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Buffalo Currant, Clove Currant, currant, currants, feathers, feeding, flight, flying, Golden Currant, honeysuckle, honeysuckles, hovering, hummingbird, hummingbirds, Lonicera involucrata, male, native, nectar, Ribes aureum, Selasphorus platycercus, shaking, shrubs, wildflowers|

I spent yesterday morning enjoying a Broad-tailed Hummingbird bliss in the Wasatch Mountains by finding their favorite perches and photographing them feeding, resting, and defending their territories.

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Gray Catbirds with Black Twinberry Honeysuckle Berries

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-30T07:01:57-05:00June 26th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Close up, Gray Catbirds, Habitat, Shrubs, Summit County, Utah|Tags: adult, Bearberry honeysuckle, berries, Black Twin Berry, Black Twinberry, Black twinberry honeysuckle, catbird, catbirds, Dumetella carolinensis, eating, flowering shrubs, Gray Catbird, honeysuckle, Lonicera involucrata, mimids, shrubs, Twinberry honeysuckle|

I'm going to keep trying to obtain better photos of the Gray Catbirds with the Black Twinberry berries and perhaps before long the catbirds will bring their young to feast on these berries too!

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Wigeon Pond, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Montana

By Mia McPherson|2023-03-20T06:37:25-05:00July 8th, 2014|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: Centennial Mountains, Centennial Valley, clouds, foothills, grasses, hills, lake, marsh, mountains, nature, nature photography, pond, shrubs, sky, snow, snow-topped, spring, trees, valley, water, wetlands, Wigeon Pond|

The amazing birds and animals keep me going back to Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge but the scenery and wildness of the area does too.

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