Harassment – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Common Mergansers And Remote Controlled Harassment

By Mia McPherson|January 15th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Harassment, Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: adult, birds, bothering, close up, Common Merganser, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, flight, flying, harassment, harasssing, immature, male, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, park, pond, remote controlled boat, remote controlled speedboat, sliding, toy, urban, water, waterfowl, wild, winter, young|

I photographed these Common Mergansers at my local pond three years ago today. I will explain why I only had a few minutes with the mergansers at my local pond.

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Ethics for Nests and Chicks

By Mia McPherson|March 9th, 2014|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Harassment, Nesting Birds, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: American Oystercatcher, bird photography, field ethics, Gulf of Mexico, Haematopus palliatus, immature, juvenile, nesting ethics, oystercatcher, oystercatchers|

I feel that as a bird photographer I need to care for my subjects every time I am in the field and that is amplified when there are young, defenseless chicks.

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Sequel to: Burrowing Owls – Loved to Death?

By Mia McPherson|September 11th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Burrowing Owls, Davis County, Harassment, Nesting Birds, Utah|Tags: Athene cunicularia, bird photography, birds, Burrowing Owl, field ethics, harassment, nest failure, nesting birds, owls|

Earlier this year in March I wrote an article titled "Burrowing Owls - Loved to Death?" and this post is a sequel to it.

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Burrowing Owls – Loved to Death?

By Mia McPherson|March 14th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Burrowing Owls, Davis County, Harassment, Nesting Birds, Utah, Wildlife Ethics & Etiquette|Tags: adult, Athene cunicularia, Burrowing Owl, flight, juveniles, nature, owl, owls, perched, wildlife ethics|

What made me sick was that there were three of those people tromping around the owl's burrow. I mean RIGHT up on it. They had no need to be that close but they were.

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