tangled – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

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.

Puzzling Mule Deer Doe Behavior

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-05T03:13:07-05:00September 5th, 2022|Categories: Mule Deer, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, behavior, canyon, creek, creek bank., crossing, deer, doe, drinking, fawn, female, grassy, immature, kicking, mammals, mountains, Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus, stream, stream bank, summer, tangled, water, young|

Last week while I was up in the Wasatch Mountains is saw some interesting Mule Deer doe behavior after I started to take images of two does and two fawns.

An Injured Long-tailed Weasel and a Snowy Egret Entangled in Rope

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-02T18:58:26-05:00August 26th, 2015|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Long-tailed Weasels, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, burrow, close up, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, entangled, gash, healed, injured, injury, Long-tailed Weasel, marsh, Mustela frenata, nose, portrait, road, rope, Snowy Egret, tangled, weasel, weasels|

And this one of the Long-tailed Weasel at the side of the road that shows its face, dark eyes and cute rounded ears but it also shows that the weasel appears to be injured on the left of its nose.