spider web – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Halloween 2023 – The Web We Weave

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-31T13:16:49-05:00October 31st, 2023|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Miscellaneous, Pinellas County|Tags: fog, foggy, forest, Halloween, Mom, spider web, water droplets|

Tonight, across the country, ghouls, goblins, super heroes, cartoon characters, vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghosts, and witches will be ringing door bells asking for treats.

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Immature Belted Kingfisher With A Spider Web

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-23T05:58:37-05:00July 23rd, 2021|Categories: Belted Kingfishers, Birds, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: Belted Kingfisher, branch, canyon, close up, immature, inset, juvenile, kingfisher, kingfishers, Megaceryle alcyon, mountains, perched, riparian habitat, spider web, spider webs, summer, web, young|

What I missed seeing was that the immature Belted Kingfisher had spider webs stuck to its face in a long series of photos that I took of it next to a creek in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Antelope Island Spider Fest 2021

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-11T10:06:02-05:00July 11th, 2021|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: 2021, adult, desert island, female, Neoscona oaxacensis, orbweaver, orbweavers, spider, Spider Fest, Spider Festival, spider web, spiders, summer, Western Spotted Orbweaver|

The Antelope Island Spider Fest starts on August 2, 2021 and continues through August 7, 2021 this year.

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Fledgling Mountain Bluebird In Montana

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-29T07:18:08-05:00April 12th, 2019|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Mountain Bluebirds|Tags: bluebird, bluebirds, chick, fence, fledgling, immature, juvenile, Mountain Bluebird, perched, Sialia currucoides, spider web, summer, thrush, thrushes, wire fence|

I dug through my older files and found this photo of a fledgling Mountain Bluebird perched on a wire fence that I photographed in July of 2017 up in Montana's Centennial Valley.

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Mule Deer Doe with a Western Spotted Orbweaver & Webs on Her Face

By Mia McPherson|2021-06-11T04:48:15-05:00July 20th, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Mule Deer, Utah|Tags: adult, deer, doe, Mule Deer, Neoscona oaxacensis, Odocoileus hemionus, orbweavers, spider, spider web, summer, web, Western Spotted Orbweaver|

I can't resist photographing birds or wildlife up close so I swung my lens around and focused on the face of the Mule Deer and laughed out loud because she was covered in spiderwebs.

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Golden-silk Spider

By Mia McPherson|2023-08-05T08:23:11-05:00October 31st, 2012|Categories: Florida, Golden-silk Spiders, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: gold web, Golden-silk Spiders, nature, nature photography, spider web, spiders, Trichonephila clavipes, wildlife, wildlife photography|

I scoured my files and the scariest thing I could come up with for Halloween is this Golden-silk Spider (other than images of me). I don't think it is really scary except that it doesn't have feathers or fur.

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