Common Sunflowers – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Other Things With Wings – Broad-headed Marsh Fly Photos

By Mia McPherson|September 9th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Broad-headed Marsh Flies, Utah|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, Broad-headed Marsh Fly, Common Sunflowers, flowering, Helianthus annuus, Helophilus latifrons, hoverflies, hoverfly, marsh, summer, sunflower, sunflowers, syrphid fly, Syrphidae, twofer, wetlands, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

These Broad-headed Marsh Fly photos are twofers. I got the hoverflies and the blooming Common Sunflowers in the same frames.

Male Lesser Goldfinches And Common Sunflower Seeds

By Mia McPherson|October 29th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Lesser Goldfinches, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, Common Sunflowers, eating, fall, finch, finches, goldfinch, goldfinches, Helianthus annuus, Lesser Goldfinch, lift off, lifting off, male, seed, seeds, Spinus psaltria, sunflowers, take off, taking off|

Yesterday opportunity knocked when several Lesser Goldfinches flew in to knosh on wild sunflowers seeds near a road at Farmington Bay WMA.

Autumn Pine Siskins at Farmington Bay WMA

By Mia McPherson|September 22nd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Pine Siskins, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, Carduelis pinus, Common Sunflowers, fall, finches, Helianthus annuus, marsh, Pine Siskin, siskin, siskins, wetlands, wild Sunflowers, wildflowers|

I took this photo of two Pine Siskins in the autumn of 2015 as they perched together on a wild sunflower at Farmington Bay WMA where they appeared to be having a tiff over the seeds.