song birds – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Migrating American Pipits in Utah – Pipits Everywhere!

By Mia McPherson|2021-12-05T05:00:33-06:00October 14th, 2016|Categories: American Pipits, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: American Pipit, Anthus rubescens, behavior, calling, grit, marsh, migrating, migration, mud, nonbreeding plumage, pipit, pipits, prey, song birds, winter plumage|

American Pipits are migrating through Utah in large numbers right now and yesterday morning at Farmington Bay they seemed to be everywhere!

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Female Horned Lark on a February morning

By Mia McPherson|2020-04-05T09:05:50-05:00February 17th, 2016|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Horned Larks, Utah|Tags: Eremophila alpestris, female, grasslands, Horned Lark, lark, larks, perched, rock, song birds|

Yesterday I took a few images of a Horned Lark male singing on Antelope Island State Park and it reminded me that I hadn't posted this image of a female Horned Lark that I photographed last year.

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American Pipits

By Mia McPherson|2021-12-05T05:35:15-06:00September 27th, 2015|Categories: American Pipits, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County|Tags: American Pipit, Anthus rubescens, birds, migration, perched, pipit, pipits, rock pile, rocks, sky, song birds, songbirds, spring migration, Water Pipits|

American Pipits were known for a long time as Water Pipits because they feed at the edge of tundra puddles and wet alpine meadows.

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Wonderful Photo Session with a White-crowned Sparrow

By Mia McPherson|2023-09-27T04:07:56-05:00June 13th, 2015|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, White-crowned Sparrows|Tags: adult, birds, Interior West subspecies, Mountain subspecies, perky, singing, song birds, sparrow, sparrows, spring, valley, White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha|

Yesterday was bright and sunny in the Centennial Valley and after hearing this White-crowned Sparrow singing I felt like breaking out in song too.

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Nesting Sage Thrashers – In a Rush to Reproduce

By Mia McPherson|2022-03-13T09:53:40-05:00April 7th, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Sage Thrashers, Utah|Tags: breeding season, close up, desert island, mimids, nest building, nesting, nesting materials, Oreoscoptes montanus, reproduce, reproduction, Sage Thrasher, song birds, spring, thrasher, thrashers|

Yesterday I had my first opportunity to photograph a Sage Thrasher with nesting materials in its bill on Antelope Island State Park.

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Sage Thrashers and the Rapidly Disappearing Sea of Sage

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-03T03:48:10-05:00March 22nd, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Conservation, Davis County, Environment, Sage Thrashers, Utah|Tags: adult, climate change, desert island, habitat destruction, mating display, mimids, Oreoscoptes montanus, rabbitbrush, Sage Thrasher, sagebrush, sagebrush steppe, Sagebrush-Obligate species, singing, song birds, thrasher, thrashers|

Can the disappearance of Sagebrush Seas be stopped? Yes, it could be but we need lawmakers that believe in science and act on it.

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Fluffy male Horned Lark

By Mia McPherson|2020-04-05T09:00:12-05:00January 23rd, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Horned Larks, Utah|Tags: adult, Davis County, Eremophila alpestris, fluffed up, fluffy, Horned Lark, lark, larks, male, song birds|

Three days ago I didn't just have fun with Coyotes on Antelope Island State Park I also had fun with this fluffy male Horned Lark.

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Quartet of Sparrow Species

By Mia McPherson|2023-09-16T04:30:24-05:00December 15th, 2014|Categories: American Tree Sparrows, Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Lincoln's Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Utah, White-crowned Sparrows|Tags: American Tree Sparrow, Davis County, Lincoln's Sparrow, marsh, Melospiza lincolnii, Melospiza melodia, perched, song birds, Song Sparrow, sparrow, sparrows, Spizelloides arborea, tree sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys|

Lately I've been able to photograph 4 different sparrow species between Antelope Island State Park and Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area.

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