carp – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Great Blue Heron Catching Fish At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|August 22nd, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, behavior, carp, cattails, Emu, fish, flasher, flasher pose, flashing, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, imitation, marsh, nonbreeding plumage, portrait, pose, prey, stalking, summer, sunning pose, wading birds, wetlands|

On my last trip up to Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge I came across this Great Blue Heron and spent only one minute photographing the large wading bird.

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Herring Gulls At Farmington Bay WMA

By Mia McPherson|February 13th, 2020|Categories: American Herring Gulls, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: American Herring Gull, Asian Carp, carp, Davis County, fish, gull, gulls, Larus smithsonianus, marsh, morning light, mud, standing, walking, water, winter|

I like gulls. I love to photograph gulls. I enjoy watching gulls in flight, on the ground, and fighting over food. I just do. I'm proud to be a gull enthusiast.

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Highlights Of My Bird Photography Trip Yesterday to Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|June 3rd, 2019|Categories: American Avocets, American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Black-crowned Night Herons, Box Elder County, Double-crested Cormorants, Long-tailed Weasels, Snowy Plovers, Utah|Tags: adult, American Avocet, American White Pelican, Anarhynchus nivosus, Asian Carp, Black-crowned Night Heron, carp, close up, Double-crested Cormorant, fish, flats, hunting, immature, Long-tailed Weasel, male, marsh, mate, Mustela frenata, Nannopterum auritus, night heron, night herons, Nycticorax nycticorax, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, preening, Recurvirostra americana, road, Snowy Plover, splashing, standing up, Supplemental Plumage, watching over, weasel, weasels|

When a bird photography trip up to Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge starts with me spotting not just one but two Snowy Plovers out on the flats I just know the day is off to a great start and that is what happened yesterday morning.

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American Crows at Farmington Bay WMA

By Mia McPherson|February 12th, 2018|Categories: American Crows, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Crow, carp, corvids, Corvus brachyrhynchos, crow, crows, eating, fish, flight, ice, marsh, water, wetlands|

Yesterday the American Crows hung around with the Bald Eagles, Herring, California and Ring-billed Gulls to feast on those invasive fish which gave me an opportunity to photograph this one standing on a dead carp.

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Four Year Old Bald Eagle Eating A Fish

By Mia McPherson|March 15th, 2013|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: Bald Eagle, carp, devouring, eagle, eagles, eating, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, fish, four year old, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, marsh, pole, raptors, Utah, wetlands, winter, wooden pole|

It was the day after Christmas in 2009 when I watched this four year old Bald Eagle lift off from this pole to catch this fish in the water impoundment nearby and to my surprise it flew right back to the same pole to devour it.

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