sulphur – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Some Recent Butterfly Images

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-06T03:28:03-05:00September 6th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Cabbage White Butterflies, Clouded Sulphur Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Woodland Skipper Butterflies|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, blossom, butterflies, butterfly, Cabbage White, Cabbage White butterfly, canyon, Clouded Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur butterfly, Colias philodice, Common Sunflower, flowering, forest, Helianthus annuus, leaf, leaves, marsh, mountains, native, Ochlodes sylvanoides, Pieris rapae, resting, roadside, skipper, skippers, sulphur, sulphurs, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, wetlands, wildflowers, Woodland Skipper, Woodland Skipper Butterfly, yellow wildflowers|

This morning I wanted to share a few of my recent butterfly images taken in the marsh at Bear River MBR and high up in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Clouded Sulphur Butterfly And Rabbitbrush

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-29T06:40:33-05:00September 29th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Clouded Sulphur Butterflies, Shrubs, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, autumn, bloom, blooming, butterflies, butterfly, close up, Clouded Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur butterfly, Colias philodice, Ericameria nauseosa, fall, feeding, flowering, nectaring, rabbitbrush, ranchlands, roadside, Rubber Rabbitbrush, sulphur, sulphurs, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

I got lucky at one rabbitbrush when I found a Clouded Sulphur butterfly nectaring on what I believe is a Rubber Rabbitbrush.

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Summer Dragonflies And Butterflies At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-29T10:46:39-05:00August 26th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Blue-eyed Darner Dragonflies, Box Elder County, Clouded Sulphur Butterflies, Purplish Copper Butterflies, Utah|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, Blue-eyed Darner, butterflies, butterfly, Clouded Sulphur, Colias philodice, Common Sunflower, copper, coppers, copulating, dragonflies, dragonfly, female, Helianthus annuus, Lycaena helloides, male, marsh, mating, nectaring, pair, Purplish Copper, Rhionaeschna multicolor, sky, sulphur, sulphurs, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, wetlands, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

Today I am sharing some of the dragonflies and butterflies I've found at Bear River MBR in the summer.

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Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand

By Mia McPherson|2021-06-15T03:29:17-05:00May 30th, 2012|Categories: Birds, New Zealand, Volcanoes, Whakaari / White Island|Tags: Australasian Gannets, bay, Bay of Plenty, bird photography, Birdlife International, Captain Cook, Crater Bay, eruptions, IBA, Important Bird Area, island, mining, Morus serrator, nature photography, New Zealand, Pōhutukawa, sulphur, water, Whakaari, White Island|

In January of 2008 I was onboard a cruise ship for a tour of New Zealand that included time spent viewing Whakaari / White Island which is an active andesite stratovolcano that rises 1,053 feet above the Bay of Plenty.

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