Lettuce Lake Regional Park – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

My Birding By Ear Affliction

By Mia McPherson|January 7th, 2023|Categories: American Crows, Barred Owls, Birds, Blue Jays, Florida, Hillsborough County, Lettuce Lake Regional Park, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Crow, autumn, Barred Owl, birding by ear, Blue Jay, branches, corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, crow, crows, Cyanocitta cristata, epiphytic flowering plant, fall, hardwood hammock, ice, jay, jays, marsh, owl, owls, peanut, perched, Spanish Moss, Strix varia, Tillandsia usneoides, tree, wetlands, winter|

My birding by ear affliction isn't that I can't hear birds; it is that I can't not hear them. Even when I am on the phone with my friends.

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Pileated Woodpecker – The 2021 ABA Bird of The Year

By Mia McPherson|January 5th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Hillsborough County, Lettuce Lake Regional Park, Pileated Woodpeckers, Pinellas County|Tags: ABA Bird of the Year, adult, American Birding Association, Australian Pines, branch, Dryocopus pileatus, female, male, perched, Pileated Woodpecker, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

The American Birding Association has selected the Pileated Woodpecker as their Bird of the Year for 2021 and I think it is an excellent choice.

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Barred Owl at Lettuce Lake Park and a Precautionary Tale

By Mia McPherson|May 20th, 2015|Categories: Barred Owls, Birds, Florida, Hillsborough County, Lettuce Lake Regional Park|Tags: adult, autumn, Barred Owl, bird photography, birds of prey, epiphytic flowering plant, ethics, fall, Hillsborough River, owl, owls, perched, recorded calls, roosting, Spanish Moss, Strix varia, Tillandsia usneoides, unethical|

We could have spent more time with this Barred Owl and it may have eventually moved to a better location for us to get photos but because of one person ticking off the owl we didn't get that chance.

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An Osprey with its feet entangled by filamentous algae

By Mia McPherson|May 31st, 2014|Categories: Birds, Florida, Lettuce Lake Regional Park, Ospreys|Tags: adult, Filamentous algae, flight, flying, hardwood forest swamp, Hillsborough County, lake, nature photography, Osprey, ospreys, Pandion haliaetus, sky, wildlife photography|

I photographed this Osprey at Lettuce Lake Regional Park from the observation tower, the Osprey had tried to catch a fish but came up with just the filamentous algae in its talons.

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