Christmas – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Eastern Bluebird With A Christmas Gnome

By Mia McPherson|December 21st, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Eastern Bluebirds, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, autumn, bluebird, bluebirds, Christmas, Christmas decoration, Eastern Bluebird, fall, feeder, female, garden, gnome, perched, Sialia sialis, suburban, thrush, thrushes, yard|

Having a female Eastern Bluebird perch on a lovely Christmas gnome decoration? That’s great fun and a joyous way to usher in the holidays here in Arkansas.

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Christmas Day Birds 2021

By Mia McPherson|December 26th, 2021|Categories: American Coots, Birds, California Gulls, Common Goldeneyes, Great Blue Herons, Great-tailed Grackles, Mallards, Rough-legged Hawks|Tags: adult, American Coot, Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea herodias, breeding plumage, Bucephala clangula, Buteo lagopus, California Gull, calling, Christmas, Christmas Day, close up, Common Goldeneye, coot, coots, crawdad, crayfish, dabbling ducks, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, eating, female, first winter, flight, flying, foraging, Fulica americana, goldeneye, goldeneyes, grackle, grackles, grass, gray sky, Great Blue Heron, Great-tailed Grackle, gull, gulls, hawk, hawks, heron, herons, hovering, Icterids, immature, Larus californicus, low light, male, Mallard, mallards, marsh, nonbreeding plumage, open bill, pond, portrait, Quiscalus mexicanus, rails, Rough-legged Hawk, splashing, urban, wading birds, water, water droplets, wetlands, winter, young|

I did get out to find and photograph birds on Christmas Day at Farmington Bay WMA and then later in the morning I found more closer to home.

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Christmas Goose

By Mia McPherson|December 25th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Cackling Geese, Canada Geese, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Branta canadensis, Cackling Goose, Canada Goose, Christmas, close, geese, goose, Lesser Canada Goose, pond, portrait, urban, water, winter|

I'm happy that I was able to photograph birds on Christmas Eve in decent light and that somehow to me this is more than "just" a goose, it is a Christmas Goose and who am I to look a gift goose in the bill?

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Seasons Greetings From On The Wing Photography

By Mia McPherson|December 25th, 2017|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: Christmas, colorful, seasons greetings, snow, sunrise, winter|

Wherever you are, whatever holiday you celebrate if you celebrate at all, I wish you joy and peace and hope that you will feel the love of your family and friends today and every day.

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Long-eared Owl and snow at Farmington Bay

By Mia McPherson|December 26th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Long-eared Owls, Utah|Tags: Asio otus, birds of prey, Christmas, landing, lifer, Long-eared Owl, owl, owls, Owls of Utah, perched, snow, snowy, winter|

This post is about how I took photos of a lifer Long-eared Owl on Christmas Day at Farmington Bay WMA in a snow storm.

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Christmas Day snow storm and a Red-tailed Hawk

By Mia McPherson|December 25th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, Christmas, Davis County, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, snow, snow storm|

I'm glad the hawk wasn't any closer or I would have missed out on exactly this image that I will always remember was created on this Christmas Day.

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