environment – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Standing Up For Nature Is Fighting For Our Lives

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-12T06:27:27-06:00January 12th, 2018|Categories: Barn Owls, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: Barn Owl, birds of prey, environment, flight, flying, hunting, nature, owl, owls, planet, sky, snow, Tyto alba, winter|

People who are environmentally conscious and whom respect and love nature already know this, they are my sisters and brothers at arms.

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Public Lands Under Fire – Just Think About It

By Mia McPherson|2017-12-07T06:26:15-06:00December 7th, 2017|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Daggett County, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Utah|Tags: Antiquities Act, environment, National Conservation Areas, National Monuments, National Recreation Areas, National Wildlife Refuges, protection, public lands, reduction, under fire|

Like to fish? Hunt? Watch wildlife? Recreate on public lands? Then think real hard at what the reduction of existing national monuments mean and the precedent that might be set.

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Utah’s Smoke Filled Skies From Antelope Island – Inversions Can Be Worse

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-09T06:01:46-05:00August 22nd, 2016|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah|Tags: environment, Great Salt Lake, haze, hazy sky, Ladyfinger Point, smoke, smokey skies, smokey sky, Wasatch Mountains, White Rock Bay|

The smoke-filled valley is ugly so yesterday I photographed Utah's smoke filled skies from Antelope Island State Park.

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I Can’t Understand…

By Mia McPherson|2023-01-11T08:30:50-06:00March 1st, 2015|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park|Tags: conservation, environment, mangrove, Pinellas County|

I'm a nature lover and a photographer who sees the natural world not just from behind my camera but with every breath and step that I take.

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Earth Day 2014

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-22T04:08:47-05:00April 22nd, 2014|Categories: American White Pelicans, Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Capitol Reef National Park, Coyotes, Utah|Tags: American White Pelican, bird photography, birds, Canis latrans, conservation, Coyote, Earth Day, environment, nature photography, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, preservation, wildlife, wildlife photography|

It is Earth Day and I wanted to write about it this morning. A LOT of good has come from everyone's involvement in Earth Day but there is still so much to be done.

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Fracking does not belong in our National Wildlife Refuges

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-12T04:37:25-05:00April 18th, 2014|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Beaverhead County, Birds, Box Elder County, Centennial Valley, Conservation, Environment, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Swainson's Hawks, Utah|Tags: Buteo swainsoni, conservation, environment, fracking, National Wildlife Refuges, oil, pollution, preservation, Swainson's Hawk|

Oil and gas companies want to come in our National Wildlife refuges to explore for oil and natural gas, they want to exploit; not preserve and protect, the resources found within the boundaries of our National Wildlife System.

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Smokey sunrises in southwestern Montana

By Mia McPherson|2021-06-23T08:22:48-05:00August 27th, 2012|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, environment, landscape photography, Montana, nature photography, smokey sky, sunrise, wildfires|

The smoke-filled skies created interesting conditions during the sunrises I viewed in while in southwestern Montana recently.

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Fish Crows – Why I Can’t Dislike Them

By Mia McPherson|2024-02-22T07:15:56-06:00August 13th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Egmont Key State Park, Fish Crows, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Gopher Tortoises, Pinellas County|Tags: coastal, coastal island, coastal key, Corvus ossifragus, crow, crows, environment, Fish Crow, Gopher Tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, natural balance, No Pets, shorebird conservationists, sign, tortoise, tortoises|

I was going to do a simple post about this image of a Fish Crow with a young Gopher Tortoise in its bill that was taken on Egmont Key State Park (also Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge), an island located just to the west of Fort De Soto, Florida.

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Farmington Utah’s Voles – Just My Opinion

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-05T10:03:42-06:00June 25th, 2012|Categories: American Kestrels, Antelope Island State Park, Conservation, Coyotes, Environment, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Glacier County, Great Blue Herons, Great Horned Owls, Loggerhead Shrikes, Montana, Northern Harriers, Rough-legged Hawks, Salt Lake Valley, Utah|Tags: American Kestrel, Coyote, ecosystem, environment, Foxboro Community, Gray Ghost, Great Blue Heron, Great Horned Owl, humane society, Loggerhead Shrike, natural predators, Northern Harrier, Rough-legged Hawk, Utah, vole infestation, voles|

Recently KSL.com; a Utah news station, had an article about a vole (a small rodent) infestation In Farmington, specifically in the neighborhood of Foxboro Community. While I sympathize with the residents about the damage being done to their yards I am disturbed by the advice many of the people commenting have left on the story.

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The Dangers of Fishing Line and Hooks for Birds and other Wildlife

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-27T05:08:44-05:00February 18th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Double-crested Cormorants, Environment, Fishing Line Dangers, Laughing Gulls, Pinellas County, White Ibises|Tags: amputations, dangers, death, Double-crested Cormorant, environment, fishermen, fishing line, fishing lures, health, Laughing Gull, lead weights, rescue, rescued, safety, strangulation, White Ibis|

The dangers of fishing line and hooks for birds and other wildlife are real and damaging.

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