Blue-winged Teal – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Birds and Wildlife From Arkansas And Sequoyah NWR In Oklahoma

By Mia McPherson|May 6th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Blue-winged Teals, Carolina Chickadees, Common Five-lined Skinks, Coyotes, Fox Squirrels, Great Horned Owls, House Finches, Northern Cardinals, Northern Flickers, Oklahoma, Painted Lady Butterflies, Pine Siskins, Sebastian County, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Three-toed Box Turtles, Tufted Titmouses|Tags: Baeolophus bicolor, Blue-winged Teal, Bubo virginianus, Canis latrans, Cardinalis cardinalis, Carduelis pinus, Carolina Chickadee, Colaptes auratus, Coyote, Diamondback Watersnake, Fox Squirrel, Great Horned Owl, Haemorhous mexicanus, House Finch, Nerodia rhombifer, Northern Cardinal, Northern Flicker, Painted Lady Butterfly, Pine Siskin, Poecile carolinensis, Sciurus niger, Spatula discors, Terrapene carolina ssp. triunguis, Three-toed Box Turtle, Tufted Titmouse|

I'm sharing a bunch of bird and wildlife photos that I have recently photographed in my friend Steve's yard in Arkansas, and from Sequoyah NWR in Oklahoma.

Some Of The Birds Seen At Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge During The Month of May

By Mia McPherson|May 19th, 2019|Categories: American Avocets, American Bitterns, American Coots, American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Black-crowned Night Herons, Blue-winged Teals, Box Elder County, Brown-headed Cowbirds, California Gulls, Cinnamon Teals, Clark's Grebes, Cliff Swallows, Forster's Terns, Killdeer, Long-billed Dowitchers, Marsh Wrens, Northern Shovelers, Red-winged Blackbirds, Ruddy Ducks, Savannah Sparrows, Tree Swallows, Utah, Western Grebes, White-faced Ibises, Yellow-headed Blackbirds|Tags: American Avocet, American Bittern, American Coot, American White Pelican, Black-crowned Night Heron, Blue-winged Teal, Brown-headed Cowbird, California Gull, Cinnamon Teal, Clark's Grebe, Cliff Swallow, Forster's Tern, Killdeer, Long-billed Dowitcher, Marsh Wren, Northern Shoveler, Red-winged Blackbird, Ruddy Duck, Savannah Sparrow, Tree Swallow, Western Grebe, White-faced Ibis, Yellow-headed Blackbird|

May is a time of renewal at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and as the marsh begins to green up the migrant birds return and along with the year round residents their songs and calls can be heard over the wetlands.

Cinnamon x Blue-winged Teal Hybrid Duck

By Mia McPherson|August 25th, 2010|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Bird ID, Birds, Duck hybrids, Utah|Tags: adult, Blue-winged Teal, Box Elder County, Cinnamon Teal, Cinnamon x Blue-winged Teal, cross, ducks, hybrid, marsh, nature photography, northern Utah, photography, Spatula cyanoptera, Spatula discors, wetlands, wildlife|

It wasn't until I pulled the image up on my monitor that I saw that this duck was a hybrid, which turned out to be Cinnamon x Blue-winged Teal hybrid.