currants – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers And A Butterfly

By Mia McPherson|May 23rd, 2021|Categories: California Tortoiseshell Butterflies, Shrubs, Tooele County, Trees, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Abies concolor, aspen, aspens, bloom, blooming, blossoms, butterflies, butterfly, California Tortoiseshell butterfly, cone, cones, currant, currants, Douglas fir, fir, firs, Gray's Biscuitroot, Hydrophyllum occidentale, Lomatium grayi, Nymphalis californica, Populus tremuloides, prunus, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quaking Aspen, Ribes cereum, shrubs, spring, trees, Wax Currant, Western Chokecherry, Western Waterleaf, White Fir|

On a recent trip to the West Desert sky island mountains in Tooele County I found my lens pointed at trees, shrubs, wildflowers and a butterfly.

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Bluebells, Currants, Warblers And A Duck

By Mia McPherson|May 15th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Mallards, Morgan County, Shrubs, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers, Yellow Warblers|Tags: adult, alpine, Anas platyrhynchos, bath, bathing, beaver damage, bloom, blooming, blossoms, blue wildflowers, branch, branches, canyon, creek, creekside, currant, currants, dabbling ducks, drake, duck, ducks, female, flowering, flowers, fork, Golden Currant, male, Mallard, mallards, Mertensia ciliata, Mountain Bluebells, mountains, perched, pink wildflowers, purple wildflowers, Ribes aureum, riparian zone, Setophaga petechia, shrub, singing, spring, stump, tapestry, warbler, warblers, water, water droplets, wildflowers, Yellow Warbler, yellow wildflowers|

I spent my morning up in the Wasatch Mountains yesterday and came home with photos of bluebells, currants, warblers, and a duck.

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Adult MacGillivray’s Warblers With Food For Their Chicks

By Mia McPherson|July 2nd, 2020|Categories: Birds, MacGillivray's Warblers, Morgan County, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, breeding season, canyon, chicks, currant, currants, feeding young, female, food, Geothlypis tolmiei, Golden Currant, insects, MacGillivray's Warbler, male, mountains, nesting season, prey, rearing young, Ribes aureum, Roundleaf Snowberry, Snowberry, Symphoricarpos rotundifolius, warbler, warblers, wood-warblers, young|

My best opportunities photographing the adult MacGillivray's Warblers with food for their young yesterday happened when the female popped into view with prey in her bill.

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Wax Currants, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds And Their Favorite Perches

By Mia McPherson|April 27th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Summit County, Tooele County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, West Desert|Tags: adult, bloom, blooming, blossoms, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, canyons, currant, currants, favorite perch, flowering, flowering shrub, flowers, hummingbird, hummingbirds, male, mountains, Ribes cereum, Selasphorus platycercus, shrub, Wax Currant|

In just a matter of days Wax Currants will start to bloom in some of the lower elevations of the mountains that aren't far from where I live and that has me excited.

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Least Chipmunk Feasting On Golden Currants

By Mia McPherson|August 8th, 2019|Categories: Least Chipmunks, Morgan County, Shrubs, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Buffalo Currant, canyon, chipmunk, chipmunks, Clove Currant, currant, currants, Golden Currant, Least Chipmunk, mountains, Neotamias minimus, Ribes aureum|

I noticed that the Golden Currants have started to ripen and this chipmunk was actively feeding on the fruits when I caught sight of it and twisted my body like a pretzel to take a few photos of it.

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Adult Green-tailed Towhee Perched In A Golden Currant Bush

By Mia McPherson|June 14th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Green-tailed Towhees, Morgan County, Shrubs, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, blooming, Buffalo Currant, Clove Currant, currant, currants, flowering shrub, Golden Currant, Green-tailed Towhee, Missouri Currant, perched, Pipilo chlorurus, Ribes aureum, sparrow, sparrows, towhee, towhees, yellow flowers|

I truly wish that I had been able to photograph this adult Green-tailed Towhee in this Golden Currant bush while is was in full bloom because that would have been gorgeous with all the tiny yellow flowers.

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Broad-tailed Hummingbird Bliss in The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|June 1st, 2019|Categories: Birds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Morgan County, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Black Twin Berry, Black twinberry honeysuckle, blooming, blooms, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Buffalo Currant, Clove Currant, currant, currants, feathers, feeding, flight, flying, Golden Currant, honeysuckle, honeysuckles, hovering, hummingbird, hummingbirds, Lonicera involucrata, male, native, nectar, Ribes aureum, Selasphorus platycercus, shaking, shrubs, wildflowers|

I spent yesterday morning enjoying a Broad-tailed Hummingbird bliss in the Wasatch Mountains by finding their favorite perches and photographing them feeding, resting, and defending their territories.

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Red Admiral Butterflies And Wax Currants In Bloom

By Mia McPherson|May 17th, 2019|Categories: Red Admiral Butterflies, Shrubs, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: admiral, admirals, adult, blooming, butterflies, butterfly, currants, pink flowers, Red Admiral, Red Admiral Butterfly, Ribes cereum, Vanessa atalanta, Wax Currant|

While I photographed male Broad-tailed Hummingbirds a few days ago in the West Desert I also took a few moments to photograph some of the butterflies nectaring on the blooms of the Wax Currant bush which included Red Admiral butterflies.

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Chipping Sparrows, Wild Turkeys and Broad-tailed Hummingbirds

By Mia McPherson|May 15th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Chipping Sparrows, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Chipping Sparrow, currants, grass, grasses, hen, hummingbird, hummingbirds, juniper, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, Ribes cereum, Selasphorus platycercus, sparrow, sparrows, Spizella passerina, turkey, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, Wax Currant, Wild Turkey|

The gems of my photographic journey yesterday morning were Broad-tailed Hummingbirds that were hanging around a Wax Currant bush next to the dirt road where the sounds of their wings alerted me to their presence.

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