blooms – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Blooming Beardtongue Photos From The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|June 23rd, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Beardtongue, beardtongues, blooming, blooms, blossom, blue wildflowers, canyon, flowering, Leonard's Beardtongue, Leonard's Beardtongues, mountains, native, Penstemon, Penstemon cyananthus, Penstemon leonardii, penstemons, summer, Wasatch Beardtongues, wildflowers|

Two days ago I focused on wildflowers I found high in the Wasatch Mountains and this morning I am sharing blooming Beardtongue photos from that morning.

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Blooming Scarlet Gilia In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|June 22nd, 2022|Categories: Scarlet Gilia, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: blooming, blooms, blossoms, canyon, flowering, gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata, mountains, native, red wildflowers, Scarlet Gilia, scarlet trumpet, sky rocket, summer, wildflowers|

Yesterday morning birds were a little slow high in the Wasatch Mountains so I looked for wildflowers to focus on including blooming Scarlet Gilia.

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Some Birds And Blooms From The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|June 13th, 2022|Categories: American Goldfinches, Birds, Black Twinberry Honeysuckle, Black-chinned Hummingbirds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Gray Catbirds, Mallards, Morgan County, Mountain Goldenbanner, Red-tailed Hawks, Song Sparrows, Summit County, Utah, Utah Serviceberry, Wasatch Mountains, Western Chokecherry, Yellow Warblers|Tags: adult, American Goldfinch, Anas platyrhynchos, babies, bathing, Black twinberry honeysuckle, blooming, blooms, blossoms, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, canyon, catbirds, Chokecherry, creek, ducklings, ducks, Dumetella carolinensis, feathers, feed, finches, flowering, gold finches, grasses, Gray Catbird, hummingbirds, Lonicera involucrata, male, Mallard, Melospiza melodia, Mountain Goldenbanner, mountains, native, Prunus virginiana, riparian habitat, Selasphorus platycercus, Setophaga petechia, singing, Song Sparrow, sparrows, Spinus tristis, Thermopsis montana, tree, warbler, warblers, Western Chokecherry, wet, willows, Yellow Warbler, yellow wildflowers|

This morning I wanted to share some photos of the birds and blooms that I took images of one morning last week while I was high in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly With Serviceberry Blossoms

By Mia McPherson|June 12th, 2022|Categories: Shrubs, Summit County, Two-tailed Swallowtails, Utah, Utah Serviceberry, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Amelanchier utahensis, blooming, blooms, blossoms, butterflies, butterfly, canyon, close up, flowering, flowering shrub, fruiting shrub, mountains, Papilio multicaudata, serviceberry, shrub, spring, Summit County, swallowtail, swallowtails, Two-tailed Swallowtail, Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly, Utah, Utah Serviceberry, Wasatch Mountains|

Late last week I stopped my Jeep in the Wasatch Mountains because I spotted a Two-tailed Swallowtail butterfly resting on a blooming serviceberry shrub.

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Broad-tailed Hummingbird Male Flashing His Gorget

By Mia McPherson|June 7th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Amelanchier utahensis, blooming, blooms, blossoms, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, canyon, flowering shrub, forestr edge, fruiting shrub, gorget, gummingbird, hummingbirds, male, mountains, perched, riparian habitat, Selasphorus platycercus, serviceberry, shrub, tree, Utah Serviceberry|

I thought I would share a few photos of a adult male Broad-tailed Hummingbird I took high in the Wasatch Mountains last week as he flashed his gorget.

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Blooming Lewis’s Flax

By Mia McPherson|June 6th, 2021|Categories: Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: bee, beetle, blooming, blooms, blue wildflowers, desert, drought, flax, flowering, Lewis's flax, Linum lewisii, mountains, prolonged drought conditions, sky island mountains, wildflowers|

I wanted to follow my post about a blue bird with blue wildflowers so here are some photos I took last week of Lewis’s Flax which are also known as Wild Blue Flax.

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Great Blue Heron and Mountain Goldenbanner

By Mia McPherson|June 2nd, 2021|Categories: Birds, Great Blue Herons, Morgan County, Small in the frame, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, blooming, blooms, canyon, Filamentous algae, flowering, grasses, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, Mountain Goldenbanner, mountain meadow, Mountain Thermopsis, mountains, pond, spring, Thermopsis montana, wading birds, water, wildflowers, willows, yellow wildflowers|

Yesterday I wrote about a Golden Eagle in the Wasatch Mountains. Today I am writing about "golden" again. Blooming Mountain Goldenbanner and a Great Blue Heron.

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Spring Male American Goldfinch

By Mia McPherson|May 26th, 2021|Categories: American Goldfinches, Birds, Morgan County, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, American Goldfinch, blooming, blooms, branches, breeding plumage, canyon, Common Dandelion, Dandelion, dandelions, finch, finches, male, mountains, perched, Spinus tristis, Taraxacum officinale, wildflowers, willows, yellow wildflowers|

Yesterday I photographed this male American Goldfinch and thought about how he is as bright as the dandelions that are blooming now in the mountains.

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Pink Wildflowers: Showy Milkweed Buds & Blooms

By Mia McPherson|July 21st, 2020|Categories: Morgan County, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Asclepias speciosa, blooming, blooms, blossoms, buds, canyon, flower buds, flowering, leaves, milkweed, milkweeds, mountains, native, pink wildflowers, Showy Milkweed, wildflowers|

Once again I missed out on photographing Showy Milkweed at the lower elevations of northern Utah but I made up for it by photographing some of these spectacular pink wildflowers high in the Wasatch Mountains yesterday.

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Blooming Chokecherry Trees In Utah’s Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|June 8th, 2020|Categories: Summit County, Trees, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: blooms, blossoms, chokecherries, Chokecherry, flowering, flowering tree, flowers, fruit tree, native, Prunus virginiana, spring, tree|

I am not just a bird photographer. I am also a student of nature each and every time I venture into the field because being out there teaches me something new on practically every journey.

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Photographing Cedar Waxwings In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|January 17th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Cedar Waxwings, Morgan County, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, background, blooming, blooms, blossoms, Bombycilla cedrorum, branch, canyon, Cedar Waxwing, close up, flowering, flowers, green, hawthorn, leaves, mountains, perched, photograph, photographing, portrait, spring, summer, trees, Wasatch Mountains, waxwing, waxwings|

For a couple of years now I have enjoyed photographing Cedar Waxwings high up in the Wasatch Mountains from spring through the tail end of autumn.

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Broad-tailed Hummingbird Bliss in The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|June 1st, 2019|Categories: Birds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Morgan County, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Black Twin Berry, Black twinberry honeysuckle, blooming, blooms, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Buffalo Currant, Clove Currant, currant, currants, feathers, feeding, flight, flying, Golden Currant, honeysuckle, honeysuckles, hovering, hummingbird, hummingbirds, Lonicera involucrata, male, native, nectar, Ribes aureum, Selasphorus platycercus, shaking, shrubs, wildflowers|

I spent yesterday morning enjoying a Broad-tailed Hummingbird bliss in the Wasatch Mountains by finding their favorite perches and photographing them feeding, resting, and defending their territories.

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Rocky Mountain Bee Plant Plus a Bee in Flight

By Mia McPherson|September 5th, 2018|Categories: Box Elder County, Honey Bees, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: anthers, Apis, bee, blooming, blooms, blossoms, Cleomella serrulata, close up, flight, flowering, flying, green pollen, honey bee, pink wildflowers, pollen, pollen basket, purple wildflowers, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, wildflowers|

On Sunday I was up in Box Elder County looking for birds but I also felt I had to stop and take some images of Rocky Mountain Bee Plants that were blooming along side the road.

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Gray Catbird Plus Blooming Hound’s Tongue Photos

By Mia McPherson|June 9th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Gray Catbirds, Summit County, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Beggars-lice, blooms, Boraginaceae, catbird, catbirds, Cynoglossum officinale, Dog’s Tongue, Dogbur, Dumetella carolinensis, Gray Catbird, Gypsy Flower, Gypsyflower, Hounds-tongue, Houndstongue, introduced, log, messy background, mimids, multi-colored, perched, twig, wildflower, wildflowers, Woolmat|

I enjoyed my time yesterday morning photographing the Gray Catbird and the Hound's Tongue in bloom but I really wish I had been as happy with my catbird photos as I am the wildflower images.

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Wild Blue Flax in the High Uintas

By Mia McPherson|April 27th, 2014|Categories: High Uintas, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: blooming, blooms, blue wildflowers, Lewis flax, Lewis's flax, Linum lewsii, mountains, Wild Blue Flax, wildflowers|

I adore the delicacy of the Wild Blue Flax and the sage-green color of the foliage and how they move so gracefully in a breeze.

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