ant – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Hatch year Red-bellied Woodpecker With Prey

By Mia McPherson|August 2nd, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Sebastian County|Tags: ant, food, garden, grass, hatch year, immature, Melanerpes carolinus, pine straw, prey, Red-bellied Woodpecker, spider, summer, urban, woodpecker, woodpeckers, yard, young|

After I photographed the Ruby-throated Hummingbird I shared yesterday, I focused on a hatch year Red-bellied Woodpecker with some kind of prey in their bill.

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Showy Milkweed Images

By Mia McPherson|July 8th, 2022|Categories: Morgan County, Showy Milkweed, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: ant, ants, Asclepias speciosa, bloom, blooming, blossom, bouquet, canyon, flower buds, flowering, milkweed, milkweeds, mountains, native, pale, pink wildflowers, Showy Milkweed, summer, white wildflowers, wildflowers|

I found some blooming Showy Milkweed in Morgan County high in the Wasatch Mountains two days ago and felt compelled to take images of these wonderful wildflowers.

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Blooming Common Sunflower With An Ant

By Mia McPherson|August 13th, 2021|Categories: Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: ant, bloom, blooming, canyon, close up, Common Sunflower, flowering, forest edge, Helianthus annuus, mountains, native, roadside, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, wild Sunflowers, yellow wildflowers|

I photographed some birds yesterday morning in the Wasatch Mountains but it was the blooming Common Sunflower with an ant that made me smile the most when I saw it on my screen.

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Uinta Ground Squirrel And An Ant

By Mia McPherson|May 18th, 2021|Categories: Summit County, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, ant, eating, grass, grasses, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, insect, spring, squirrel, squirrels, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus|

Last week while up in the Wasatch Mountains I took a series of close up images of this Uinta Ground Squirrel plus an ant on its right front leg.

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Juvenile Mountain Bluebird Learning To Hunt On Its Own

By Mia McPherson|July 8th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Mountain Bluebirds, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: ant, bluebird, bluebirds, canyon, juvenile, Mountain Bluebird, mountains, road, Sialia currucoides|

Last month I had a few opportunities to photograph juvenile Mountain Bluebirds in a Wasatch Mountain canyon while they were being fed by adults and as they learned to hunt on their own.

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Lark Sparrow with an Ant on Antelope Island

By Mia McPherson|April 18th, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Lark Sparrows, Utah|Tags: adult, ant, boulder, breeding season, Chondestes grammacus, desert, harlequin face, island, Lark Sparrow, perched, song, sparrow, sparrows|

The day I photographed this Lark Sparrow with an ant on the boulder right next to it the light wasn't the best for bird photography but when I reviewed the images and saw the ant I knew I had to keep this photo.

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Adult Red-tailed Hawk with an Ant

By Mia McPherson|September 4th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Montana, Red-tailed Hawks|Tags: adult, ant, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, close up, crop, full crop, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Montana, perched, portrait, raptors, red tail hawk, Red-tailed Hawk|

At the time I created this image I didn't realize that when I took this portrait of the adult Red-tailed Hawk that I also photographed an ant. Can you see it?

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The Ant Slaying Snowy Plover

By Mia McPherson|November 18th, 2012|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Snowy Plovers|Tags: Anarhynchus nivosus, ant, behavior, bird photography, bird watching, birding, birds, food, nature photography, Pinellas County, prey, Snowy Plover, wildlife photography|

While photographing this Snowy Plover in June of 2008 I was able to observe the tiny shorebird snatch an ant from the sugar sand of the north beach of Fort De Soto.

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