wildlife photographer – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Fun Photographing A Road-Crossing Crawdad At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|August 8th, 2023|Categories: Crawdads, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, crawdad, crawdads, crayfish, defensive, Mudbug, mudbugs, road, Steve Creek, wildlife photographer|

Some experiences in the field almost feel like tall tales when I try to write about them. This road-crossing crawdad story from Sequoyah NWR is one of those.

Pronghorn Does in Utah’s West Desert

By Mia McPherson|June 26th, 2014|Categories: Pronghorn, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Antilocapra americana, desert, does, grasslands, nature, nature photography, Pronghorn, Pronghorn Antelope, sagebrush, wildlife, wildlife photographer, wildlife photography|

For me there is something very serene and peaceful about this west desert Pronghorn image.

This Mule Deer is not a “dumb animal”

By Mia McPherson|October 24th, 2010|Categories: Captive killing - large game, Elk, Moose, Mule Deer, Wildlife Ethics & Etiquette|Tags: canned hunts, captive hunts, Elk, fairchase, game farms, hunting ethics, large game, Moose, Mule Deer, nature photography, nature photography ethics, not a dumb animal, private game preserves, Utah, wildlife, wildlife photographer, wildlife photography|

The truly dumb animals are the people who install high fences on private property to cage large game animals inside and then for enormous fees encourage and allow other dumb animals to shoot captive animals and call it hunting.