Roosevelt Wetlands – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Tricolored Herons In Florida Habitats

By Mia McPherson|January 19th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Hillsborough County, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Tricolored Herons, Weedon Island Preserve|Tags: adult, breeding plumage, estuaries, fish, foraging, habitat, habitats, Hillsborough River, lake, Lake Maggiore, lakes, lily pads, nonbreeding plumage, prey, river, rivers, saltwater marsh, saltwater marshes, spartina, surf, water, waves, wetland, wetlands, White Mangroves|

When I lived in Florida Tricolored Herons were among my favorite wading birds to photograph and I found them in many different types of habitats.

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Limpkins in Florida

By Mia McPherson|October 5th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Florida, Lake Seminole, Limpkins, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands|Tags: adult, Apple Snail, Aramus guarauna, call, calling, frogs, grasses, insects, Limpkin, limpkins, mussels, snails, spiders, swimming, walking, water, wetlands, winter|

Florida is about as far north as Limpkins are found in North America and they can be seen in freshwater marshes, ponds, lakeshores and swamps.

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Age Related Color Morphs of Little Blue Herons

By Mia McPherson|March 22nd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Little Blue Herons, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands|Tags: adult, age, appearance, Calico, Egretta caerulea, first summer, heron, herons, hunting, juvenile, Little Blue Heron, molts, piebald, pied, Pipefish, plumage, plumage variations, wading birds, wetlands|

Little Blue Herons start off their lives with white plumage, then look piebald with blue and white fathers and finally look more "blue" as adults.

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Comparing Common Gallinules and American Coots

By Mia McPherson|February 21st, 2017|Categories: American Coots, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Common Gallinules, Florida, Lake Carillon, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: American Coot, cattails, Common Gallinule, Common Moorhen, comparing, comparison, coot, coots, feeding, Fulica americana, Gallinula galeata, gallinule, gallinules, marsh, pond, similarities, stretching, versus, water, wetlands, wing lift|

Common Gallinules and American Coots are both from the Rallidae family and there are some similarities in their appearance, for instance both have a triangular bill with a frontal shield at the top.

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International Vulture Awareness Day 2016

By Mia McPherson|September 3rd, 2016|Categories: Birds, Black Vultures, Box Elder County, Florida, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, Black Vulture, carrion, Cathartes aura, Coragyps atratus, DDT, diclofenac, immature, International Vulture Awareness Day, juvenile, perched, raptors, scavengers, thermoregulating, Turkey Vulture, vultures|

Vultures and condors are scavengers and help to clean up the environment by consuming carrion, road kill and gut piles left from the kills of human and non-human hunters.

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Wildflowers for Valentine’s Day

By Mia McPherson|February 14th, 2014|Categories: Florida, Roosevelt Wetlands, Sawgrass Lake Park, Wildflowers|Tags: American White Waterlily, bee, Lanced-leaved Arrowhead, nature photography, Nymphaea odorata, Sagittaria lancifolia, wildflowers|

Happy Valentine's Day! I never much cared for cut flowers and prefer to see them in nature so today I present a wet American White Waterlily I photographed in 2007 at Sawgrass Lake Park in Florida.

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Goin’ Green

By Mia McPherson|April 24th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Monk Parakeets, Roosevelt Wetlands, Sawgrass Lake Park, USF Botanical Garden|Tags: bird photography, birds, Florida, Monk Parakeets, Myiopsitta monachus, nature, nature photography, photography, Roosevelt Wetlands, Sawgrass Lake Park, USF Botanical Garden|

I've posted about Thinking Pink and Shades of Blue so today I thought I'd share some images about Goin' Green.

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Earth Day 2013

By Mia McPherson|April 22nd, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Coyotes, Dragonflies, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Reddish Egrets, Roosevelt Wetlands, Utah, Wildlife, Zion National Park|Tags: Antelope Island State Park, Arisaema triphyllum, bird photography, birds, Canis latrans, Coyote, Crocothemis servilia, dragonfly, Egretta rufescens, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, nature, nature photography, Reddish Egret, Scarlet Skimmer, Utah, wildlife, wildlife photography, Zion National Park|

I wanted to share these images because today is Earth Day.

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Lance-leaved Arrowhead

By Mia McPherson|March 27th, 2013|Categories: Florida, Roosevelt Wetlands, Wildflowers|Tags: blooming, Duck Potato, Florida, Lanced-leaved Arrowhead, nature, nature photography, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Sagittaria lancifolia, wetlands, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

I photographed this Lance-leaved Arrowhead at Roosevelt Wetland in Pinellas County, Florida several years ago.

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Mating Halloween Pennant Dragonflies

By Mia McPherson|September 8th, 2012|Categories: Dragonflies, Florida, Roosevelt Wetlands|Tags: Celithemis eponia, dragonflies, drangonfly, Florida, Halloween Pennant, insects, mating, nature photography, pennant, pennants, Roosevelt Wetlands, wetlands, wildlife photography|

I am fascinated by "things with wings" and that includes dragonflies like these mating Halloween Pennants (Celithemis eponia).

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Hidden Treasures

By Mia McPherson|December 24th, 2010|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Burrowing Owls, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Glacier County, Gray Partridges, Least Bitterns, Montana, Roosevelt Wetlands, Tricolored Herons, Utah|Tags: Athene cunicularia, bird ID, Burrowing Owl, Egretta tricolor, Gray Partridge, herons, hidden, Ixobrychus exilis, Least Bittern, owls, Perdix perdix, Tricolored Heron|

As a bird photographer I often strive for images where the subjects are out in the open, without distractions in the fore or background, but as with any photographic "rule", they are made to be broken.

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Great Blue Herons

By Mia McPherson|September 26th, 2010|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, baiting ethics, bird photography, close up, ethics, flight, flying, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, hunting, immature, juveniles, nest, nesting, perched, portrait, prey, sand dune, snag, snow, stalking, wading birds, wetlands, winter|

Great Blue Herons are North America's largest heron and one of the three largest herons in the world.

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