Habitat – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Why I See More Than A Tree In These Photos

By Mia McPherson|December 29th, 2023|Categories: Conservation, Davis County, Environment, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Habitat, Trees, Utah|Tags: Ailanthus altissima, Chinese Sumac, clouds, Goose Egg Island, hill, marsh, mountains, sky, tree, Tree-of-heaven, trees, Wasatch Mountains, wetlands, winter|

Both of these photos show the same tree on Goose Egg Island at Farmington Bay WMA. The images were taken in December of 2022 and 2013.

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Immature Female Northern Harrier

By Mia McPherson|December 12th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Environment, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Habitat, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: autumn, birds of prey, Circus hudsonius, clouds, fall, female, field, first winter, flight, flying, harrier, harriers, hawk, hawks, immature, marsh, Northern Harrier, on the wing, perched, post, raptors, scanning, sky, snow, snowy, wetlands, wooden post, young|

Today I am sharing three photos of an immature female Northern Harrier that I took ten years ago at Farmington Bay WMA.

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Say’s Phoebes And Sagebrush

By Mia McPherson|June 12th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Habitat, Say's Phoebes, Shrubs, Utah|Tags: adult, Artemisia tridentata, barbed wire, Big Sagebrush, Box Elder County, desert, fence, fence post, flycatcher, flycatchers, foraging, hunting, landing, nest, perched, phoebe, phoebes, sage, sagebrush, Say's Phoebe, spring, tyrant flycatchers, Utah, young|

Over time I have come to associate Say's Phoebes with sagebrush because I don't think I have ever seen or photographed one of these phoebes where there wasn't sage nearby here in northern Utah.

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Gray Catbirds with Black Twinberry Honeysuckle Berries

By Mia McPherson|June 26th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Close up, Gray Catbirds, Habitat, Shrubs, Summit County, Utah|Tags: adult, Bearberry honeysuckle, berries, Black Twin Berry, Black Twinberry, Black twinberry honeysuckle, catbird, catbirds, Dumetella carolinensis, eating, flowering shrubs, Gray Catbird, honeysuckle, Lonicera involucrata, mimids, shrubs, Twinberry honeysuckle|

I'm going to keep trying to obtain better photos of the Gray Catbirds with the Black Twinberry berries and perhaps before long the catbirds will bring their young to feast on these berries too!

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