white wildflowers – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Variegated Fritillary Butterfly At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|2023-07-30T04:45:44-05:00July 30th, 2023|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Variegated Fritillary Butterflies|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, Common Hedge Parsley, Euptoieta claudia, fritillaries, fritillary, fritillary butterfly, parsley, perched, spring, Steve Creek, Torilis arvensis, Variegated Fritillary, white wildflowers|

Today I am sharing three Variegated Fritillary butterfly photos that I took at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge when I visited my friend, Steve Creek, in June.

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Blooming Monument Plant In Utah

By Mia McPherson|2023-07-13T05:10:42-05:00July 13th, 2023|Categories: Monument Plants, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: blooming, blooms, blossoms, canyon, Deer's ears, Elkweed, flowering, Frasera speciosa, gentian family, Green Gentian, green wildflowers, inflorescence, Monument Plant, mountains, spike, stem, summer, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

This morning, I am showcasing two blooming Monument Plant photos. I took these images yesterday in Summit County, high in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Common Buckeye Butterfly Photos From Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|2023-07-07T03:58:30-05:00July 7th, 2023|Categories: Common Buckeye Butterflies, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Wildlife|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, buckeye, buckeyes, butterflies, butterfly, Common Buckeye, Common Hedge Parsley, Junonia coenia, nectaring, perched, resting, spring, Torilis arvensis, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

I'm sharing four Common Buckeye butterfly photos this morning. These images were taken at beautiful Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oklahoma.

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Blooming Prickly Poppies In The West Desert

By Mia McPherson|2023-05-26T02:59:24-05:00May 26th, 2023|Categories: Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: Argemone munita, blooming, blooms, blossoms, desert, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, flowering, foothills, native, Prickly Poppy, sky island mountains, summer, Tooele County, Utah, west desert, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

Prickly Poppies are one of my favorite summer wildflowers. I find these poppies in desert habitats, most often in the foothills of sky island mountain ranges.

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Fading Flatbud Prickly Poppy

By Mia McPherson|2022-08-15T05:30:25-05:00August 15th, 2022|Categories: Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Argemone munita, beauty, bloom, blooming, blossoms, desert, faded, fading, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, flowering, foothills, native, Prickly Poppy, roadside, summer, Tooele County, Utah, west desert, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

This morning I am keeping this fading Flatbud Prickly Poppy post short and sweet for two simple reasons.

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Showy Milkweed Images

By Mia McPherson|2022-07-08T05:17:24-05:00July 8th, 2022|Categories: Morgan County, Showy Milkweed, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: ant, ants, Asclepias speciosa, bloom, blooming, blossom, bouquet, canyon, flower buds, flowering, milkweed, milkweeds, mountains, native, pale, pink wildflowers, Showy Milkweed, summer, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

I found some blooming Showy Milkweed in Morgan County high in the Wasatch Mountains two days ago and felt compelled to take images of these wonderful wildflowers.

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Mallard Ducklings And White Water Crowfoot

By Mia McPherson|2023-05-09T04:28:29-05:00June 28th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Mallards, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, White Water Crowfoot, Wildflowers|Tags: Anas platyrhynchos, aquatic vegetation, aquatic wildflower, bloom, blooming, blossoms, canyon, Common Water-Crowfoot, creek, dabbling ducks, duck, duckling, ducks, flowering, juvenile, Mallard, mallards, mountains, native, preening, Ranunculus aquatilis, summer, Summit County, swimming, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, water, waterfowl, White Water Buttercup, White Water-crowfoot, white wildflowers, wildflowers, young|

This morning I am sharing photos of Mallard ducklings and blooming White Water Crowfoot taken in a creek high in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Blooming Longleaf Phlox In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2022-05-31T12:54:31-05:00May 31st, 2022|Categories: Longleaf Phlox, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: bloom, blooming, blossoms, flowering, Longleaf Phlox, low-growing, mountains, native, North America, perennial, phlox, Phlox longifolia, phloxes, pink wildflowers, riparian habitat, spring, western, white wildflowers, wildlfowers|

Earlier this month I found an area where Longleaf Phlox were blooming in the Wasatch Mountains and I just had to take a few photos of them.

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Roundleaf Snowberry Berries

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-16T06:26:27-05:00August 16th, 2021|Categories: Morgan County, Shrubs, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: berries, berry, bloom, blooming, canyon, drupes, flowering shrub, Mountain Snowberry, mountains, pink wildflowers, ripening, Roundleaf Snowberry, shrub, snowberries, Snowberry, spider webs, spring, summer, Symphoricarpos rotundifolius, Utah, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

Last week while I was up in the Wasatch Mountains I had the opportunity to take photos of Roundleaf Snowberry berries in between photographing birds.

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Poppies, Birds, Trees, Butterflies And A Smoky Haze

By Mia McPherson|2023-08-18T12:13:26-05:00August 5th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Red-tailed Hawks, Tooele County, Trees, Utah, Weidemeyer's Admiral Butterflies, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: Abies concolor, admiral, admirals, adult, Argemone munita, birds of prey, bloom, blooming, branch, Buteo jamaicensis, butterflies, butterfly, cone, cones, creek, dawn, desert, Douglas fir, fir, firs, flowering, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, juvenile, Limenitis weidemeyerii, mountains, native, poppies, poppy, Prickly Poppy, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca, puddling, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir, sky, sky island mountains, smoky, smoky haze, summer, tree, trees, Weidemeyer's Admiral, White Fir, white wildflowers, wildflowers, young|

The first time I raised my lens yesterday morning it was for blooming Prickly Poppies that were along the shoulder of the bumpy gravel road.

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Blooming Blue Elderberry

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-17T05:46:34-05:00July 17th, 2021|Categories: Blue Elderberry, Summit County, Trees, Shrubs and Flowers, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: blooming, blossoms, Blue Elderberry, canyon, drought, drought conditions, elderberries, elderberry, flowering, flowering shrub, flowering tree, mountains, Sambucus cerulea, Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea, summer, white wildflowers|

Blue Elderberry shrubs are blooming right now high in the Wasatch Mountains. Two days ago I took a few photos of the elderberry blossoms.

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Curious Short-eared Owl Fledgling At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-12T16:51:44-05:00June 26th, 2020|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Short-eared Owls, Utah|Tags: Asio flammeus, chick, curious, fledgling, grass, grasses, immature, morning light, owl, owls, parallaxing, ranchlands, Short-eared Owl, side lit, summer, white wildflowers, young|

I took quite a few photos of the fledgling Short-eared Owl that I had a clear view of and even though the lighting wasn't the best I was enchanted by the views I had of it.

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Prickly Poppies, Bees and a Grasshopper

By Mia McPherson|2022-08-14T17:03:12-05:00June 29th, 2017|Categories: Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: Argemone munita, bee, bumble bee, bumblebee, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, grasshopper, Mexican poppy, poppies, Prickly Poppy, Thistle Poppy, white wildflowers, wildflowers, wildlife|

Each Prickly Poppy flower is about 3 to 5 inches across with yellow centers of clustered stamens and delicate petals that look like white crepe paper.

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Celebrating Seven Years in Utah – Photographing Birds, Wildlife and Scenery

By Mia McPherson|2020-01-15T05:49:56-06:00July 10th, 2016|Categories: American Bison, Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Daggett County, Davis County, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Kane County, Kodachrome Basin State Park, Short-eared Owls, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: American Bison, Asio flammeus, battle, Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater Sage-Grouse, grouse, lek, male, owls, photograph, photographing, Short-eared Owl, upland game birds, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

My journey in life has taken me to many places and I'm glad that it brought me to Utah where I am enjoying photographing birds, wildlife and scenery. Seven years ago today.

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American White Waterlily and a Honey Bee

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-16T08:40:15-05:00April 5th, 2015|Categories: Florida, Honey Bees, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park, Wildflowers|Tags: American White Waterlily, aquatic, bee, honey bee, Nymphaea odorata, summer, water, water lily, waterlilies, wet, wetland, wetlands, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

Once upon a time I paid more attention to wildflowers and insects and photographed them extensively when I had the chance so today I thought I would resurrect one of my old files.

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Prickly Poppy – Argemone munita

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-08T06:17:57-05:00July 19th, 2013|Categories: Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Argemone munita, blooming, chicalote, desert, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Mexican poppy, nature, nature photography, perennial, photography, Prickly Poppy, summer blooming, Thistle Poppy, white wildflowers, wildflowers, yellow stamens|

The Prickly Poppy is well named because the leaves and flower stems do have spines on them.

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Lance-leaved Arrowhead

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-16T11:39:04-05:00March 27th, 2013|Categories: Florida, Roosevelt Wetlands, Wildflowers|Tags: blooming, Duck Potato, Florida, Lanced-leaved Arrowhead, nature, nature photography, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Sagittaria lancifolia, wetlands, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

I photographed this Lance-leaved Arrowhead at Roosevelt Wetland in Pinellas County, Florida several years ago.

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