wild – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Common Mergansers And Remote Controlled Harassment

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-15T05:09:41-06:00January 15th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Harassment, Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: adult, birds, bothering, close up, Common Merganser, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, flight, flying, harassment, harasssing, immature, male, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, park, pond, remote controlled boat, remote controlled speedboat, sliding, toy, urban, water, waterfowl, wild, winter, young|

I photographed these Common Mergansers at my local pond three years ago today. I will explain why I only had a few minutes with the mergansers at my local pond.

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Native Common Hops In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2023-09-06T05:20:13-05:00September 6th, 2023|Categories: East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: bine, canyon, climbing, Common Hops, flowering vine, herbaceous, hops, Humulus lupulus, Humulus lupulus var. neomexicanus, leaves, mountains, native, perennial, summer, vine, wild|

On my last trip into the Wasatch Mountains, the first thing I photographed was Common Hops near a creek in East Canyon, Morgan County.

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My Shadow Plus The Wild Beauty of Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-31T19:24:49-06:00February 3rd, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: beauty, frozen, ice, landscape, marsh, mountains, Promontory Mountains, scenery, shadow, sky, snow, snow-capped, snow-covered, water, wetlands, wild, winter|

Yesterday morning while it was still dark I bundled up and drove up to soak in the wild beauty of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. I am so glad that I went.

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Barn Owls on Antelope Island

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-30T17:17:02-05:00July 10th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Barn Owls, Davis County, Utah|Tags: Barn Owl, birds of prey, chicks, immature, juveniles, low light, noodle, not baited, owl, owls, perched, trailer, Tyto alba, wild|

I really, really, really wish these young Barn Owls had been perched on something that looked more natural than old bent metal with droppings all over it

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