strutting – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Late Summer Snowy Egret Images

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-15T03:39:06-05:00September 15th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, agitated, close up, Davis County, duckweed, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, foot, foraging, marsh, muddy, pond, portrait, Snowy Egret, strutting, summer, wading birds, water, wetlands|

This past Monday I focused on taking Snowy Egret images after taking photos of a Virginia Rail and Lesser Yellowlegs at a near empty pond At Farmington Bay.

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Spring Wild Turkey Tom Displays

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-21T16:09:24-05:00March 17th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: breeding display, courtship display, display, displaying, female, grasses, hen, junipers, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, plumage variation, smoke phase, spring, strutting, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland game birds, Wild Turkey|

The last time I was up in the Wasatch Mountains I found a Wild Turkey tom displaying next to some old farm equipment for the nearby hens.

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West Desert Wild Turkey Tom Strutting And Displaying

By Mia McPherson|2021-02-27T15:53:27-06:00April 10th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: beard, breeding display, breeding season, canyon, courtship display, displaying, fanned tail, fanning, feathers, gobble, junipers, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, road, snood, snow, spring, spring snow, spurs, strutting, tail, tom, turkey, turkeys, Wild Turkey|

I took hundreds of photos of the tom Wild Turkey fanning his tail, walking on the dirt road, strutting and displaying for the hens I could not see. And for those moments all seemed right in the world.

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Small Flock Of Male Wild Turkeys With One Odd, Dark Tom

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-10T09:05:53-06:00October 20th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: alert, colorful, dark, food, introduced, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, native, non-native, road, strutting, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland game birds, very dark, walking, Wild Turkey|

Two days ago I spotted a Wild Turkey tom crossing a dirt road high up in the Stansbury Mountains and to my delight there were several more males following behind him.

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Snowy Egret Landing Sequence Plus Two Bonus Photos

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-21T04:07:50-05:00September 29th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, banking, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, flight, fluffed up, Golden Slipper, landing, leaning, marsh, morning light, settling down, shallow water, snowy, Snowy Egret, strutting, wading birds, wetlands, wings|

Four days ago I was able to photograph a Snowy Egret landing sequence that I liked because of the action of the bird, the setting and the lovely lighting I had at the time.

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Wild Turkey Tom Strutting and Displaying Plus Memories Turkeys Arouse In Me

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-22T03:20:39-05:00March 31st, 2018|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: displaying, junipers, Meleagris gallopavo, Meleagris gallopavo intermedia, mountains, Rio Grande, sagebrush, Southwestern, strutting, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland game birds, Wild Turkey|

Breeding season has begun for Wild Turkeys so when I spotted a flock of them yesterday in the Stansbury Mountains in Tooele County I was hoping to photograph a tom turkey strutting.

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