coneflower – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Gray Hairstreak Butterfly Photos – For The Love Of Butterflies

By Mia McPherson|April 3rd, 2025|Categories: Gray Hairstreak Butterflies, Johnston County, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, blooming, blooms, blossoms, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, coneflower, coneflowers, field, flowering, Gray Hairstreak, hairstreak, hairstreaks, nectaring, orange wildflowers, Ratibida columnifera, red wildflowers, spring, Strymon melinus, Tishomingo NWR, Upright Prairie Coneflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

Butterflies are rapidly declining in North America, so I’m photographing and sharing them often. Today, I’m sharing Gray Hairstreak photos.

Gray Hairstreak Butterfly On An Upright Prairie Coneflower

By Mia McPherson|June 3rd, 2024|Categories: Gray Hairstreak Butterflies, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, blooming, blooms, blossoms, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, coneflower, coneflowers, field, flowering, Gray Hairstreak, hairstreak, hairstreaks, nectaring, orange wildflowers, Ratibida columnifera, red wildflowers, spring, Strymon melinus, Upright Prairie Coneflower, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

When I visited Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge last week I spent some time photographing Gray Hairstreak butterflies, a butterfly species that is new to me.

Butterfly Photos From Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|May 21st, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Orange Sulphur Butterflies, Phaon Crescent Butterflies, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Variegated Fritillary Butterflies|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossoms, bottomlands, butteflies, butterflies, butterfly, buttrflies, Colias eurytheme, coneflower, coneflowers, crescent, cresents, Euptoieta claudia, feeding, flowering, fritillaries, fritillary, insects, nectaring, Oklahoma, Orange Sulphur, Orange Sulphur Butterfly, orange wildflowers, Phaon Crescent, Phaon Crescent Butterfly, Phyciodes phaon, Ratibida columnifera, red wildflowers, spring, sulphur, sulphurs, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Tishomingo NWR, Upright Prairie Coneflower, Variegated Fritillary, Variegated Fritillary Butterfly, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

This morning, I wanted to share a few more things with wings: a set of butterfly photos I took recently at Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.