Bushtits – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Psaltriparus minimus

Bushtits are tiny, large-headed birds that have gray-brown upperparts, paler underparts, long tails and tiny dark bills. Female Bushtits have light eyes, males and juvenile have dark eyes.

2020 Photographic Year In Review

By Mia McPherson|December 31st, 2020|Categories: Bald Eagles, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Bushtits, Common Loons, Cooper’s Hawks, Desert Tarantulas, Eastern Kingbirds, Elk, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Ferruginous Hawks, Golden Eagles, Gray Catbirds, Great Blue Herons, Green Herons, Green-tailed Towhees, Merlins, Mountain Bluebirds, Nashville Warblers, Northern Harriers, Pine Siskins, Red Foxes, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Red-tailed Hawks, Ring-billed Gulls, Rusty Blackbirds, Short-eared Owls, Townsend's Solitaires, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, West Desert, Wild Turkeys, Wildflowers, Yellow Warblers|Tags: 5.7 earthquake, blackbirds, bluebirds, catbirds, coronavirus, eagles, Elk, fox, ground squirrels, gulls, harriers, hawks, herons, hummingbirds, kingbirds, loons, Merlin, owls, rare birds, red tailed hawks, siskins, tarantula, towhees, turkeys, uncommon, wablers, year in review|

This is my 2020 photographic year in review. I'm selecting some of my favorite photos from 2020 and a few that just make me happy to see them.

Foraging Autumn Bushtits In Northern Utah

By Mia McPherson|October 14th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Bushtits, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, branch, break, Bushtit, Bushtits, Celtis reticulata, clinging, desert, fall, female, foraging, leaf, male, Netleaf Hackberry, perched, Psaltriparus minimus, tip, tips, tit, tits, tree, trees|

Seeing and photographing the Bushtits in northern Utah was a gift that I didn't expect yesterday and I am grateful to finally have images of them that I like.

Nemesis Birds – Bushtit Photos

By Mia McPherson|December 3rd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Bushtits, Daggett County, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Ophir Canyon, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Bushtit, females, Flaming Gorge Dam, foraging, light eyes, nemesis, Psaltriparus minimus, rabbitbrush, twittering|

Bushtits are a nemesis bird for me, I have only had a few opportunities to photograph these tiny, frenetic birds and I have yet to get high quality images of them.