balancing – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Male Eastern Bluebird Teaching His Young

By Mia McPherson|May 17th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Eastern Bluebirds, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, Arkansas, balancing, behavior, bluebird, bluebirds, checking out, chicks, dancing, driftwood, Eastern Bluebird, excited, feeder, flapping, fluttering, food, garden, guiding, lifted, male, perch, perched, Sebastian County, showing, Sialia sialis, spring, teaching, tempting, thrush, thrushes, urban, watching, waving, wings, yard, young|

Before I left Arkansas, I had the privilege of seeing and photographing this male Eastern Bluebird teaching his young fledglings where to find food.

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Foggy Morning Red-tailed Hawks & Turkey Vulture

By Mia McPherson|March 27th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Red-tailed Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: balancing, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, catch light, Cathartes aura, close up, fence post, flight, fog, foggy, foggy condition, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lichen, lift off, low light, nesting materials, perched, portrait, post, raptors, red-tailed, Red-tailed Hawk, Turkey Vulture, vulture, vultures, weather|

It wasn't "partly sunny" as predicted but I enjoyed myself while photographing the Turkey Vulture and Red-tailed Hawks on a foggy morning even though it tested my skills and techniques.

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Juvenile Burrowing Owl Balancing Act

By Mia McPherson|May 12th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Burrowing Owls, Utah|Tags: Athene cunicularia, balancing, barbed wire, birds of prey, Burrowing Owl, juvenile, owlet, owls, young|

I photographed this juvenile Burrowing Owl balancing act last year in northern Utah not long after the sun came up

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Female American Kestrel eating a vole (graphic)

By Mia McPherson|February 5th, 2012|Categories: American Kestrels, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Kestrel, balancing, desert island, eating, Falco sparverius, falcon, falcons, feeding, feeding behavior, grip, kestrel, kestrels, nature, vole, wildlife, windy|

There are times when photographs speak for themselves, they tell a story or show behavior and with my bird and wildlife photography they also show the natural cycle of life. These images may be gruesome for some to view but they show this falcon's natural behavior quite well.

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