{"id":55423,"date":"2018-12-27T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=55423"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:21:25","slug":"hen-common-goldeneyes-in-flight-and-this-site-is-on-the-wing-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/12\/27\/hen-common-goldeneyes-in-flight-and-this-site-is-on-the-wing-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Hen Common Goldeneyes In Flight And This Site Is On The Wing Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CommonCommon Goldeneye hens in flight – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Snow and clouds are in the forecast for today and I have decided that today is the day for me to migrate On The Wing Photography over to the new server that I mentioned a while back.<\/p>\n

My site is huge because I’ve been posting about my photographic journeys since 2010. I have large photo galleries and this move has been stressing me and that has to end.<\/p>\n

So I am going to jump in feet first, back up this site this morning for safe keeping and hopefully everything will move over without any issues.<\/p>\n

For awhile On The Wing Photography may be unreachable or there may just be a coming soon page until I get things sorted out. I may even take time off to photograph birds in the snow allow to myself to de-stress.<\/p>\n

Birds always know when it is the right time to migrate and so do I. It’s time.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Common Goldeneye photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snow and clouds are in the forecast for today and I have decided that today is the day for me to migrate On The Wing Photography over to the new server that I mentioned a while back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,962,709,26],"tags":[4004,6577,4238,4520,4753,1129,126,4070,5918,4052,4122,6348,5586,4359,4823,4076,8018,2063,373],"class_list":["post-55423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-common-goldeneyes","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-branches","tag-bucephala-clangula","tag-common-goldeneye","tag-diving-ducks","tag-duck","tag-ducks-2","tag-female","tag-females","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-goldeneye","tag-goldeneyes","tag-hen","tag-hens","tag-trees","tag-urban","tag-waterfowl","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/common-goldeneyes-hen-flight-mia-mcpherson-3040.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-epV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107941,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/11\/12\/my-first-of-season-common-goldeneye\/","url_meta":{"origin":55423,"position":0},"title":"My First Of Season Common Goldeneye","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"November 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I found my first of season Common Goldeneye near a stand of rushes while walking around a local pond after a light skiff of snow had fallen overnight.","rel":"","context":"In "Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge"","block_context":{"text":"Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/utah\/bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"First of season drake Common Goldeneye in Salt Lake County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/common-goldeneye-fos-mia-mcpherson-3471.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/common-goldeneye-fos-mia-mcpherson-3471.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/common-goldeneye-fos-mia-mcpherson-3471.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/common-goldeneye-fos-mia-mcpherson-3471.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":122111,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/02\/27\/drake-common-goldeneyes-in-winter\/","url_meta":{"origin":55423,"position":1},"title":"Drake Common Goldeneyes In Winter","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"When I took this photo of two drake Common Goldeneyes at Bear River MBR almost two years ago, I was laughing as I hit my shutter button. 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