eye – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

It’s Weird Not Seeing California Gulls!

By Mia McPherson|December 7th, 2024|Categories: California Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, California Gull, drinking, eye, fall, gull, gulls, Larus californicus, nonbreeding plumage, park, pond, urban, water, winter plumage|

I have to admit that, after living in Utah for nearly fifteen years, it feels weird not seeing California Gulls now that I've moved away. Really weird.

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Marsh Wren Surprise At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|November 27th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Marsh Wrens, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, autumn, bottomlands, Cistothorus palustris, eye, fall, Marsh Wren, perched, saucy, surprise, wetlands, wren, wrens|

In the middle of photographing White-tailed Deer bucks, a surprise Marsh Wren popped up close to me, and I quickly changed my focus to take images of the wren.

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Fall Brings White-crowned and White-throated Sparrows to Arkansas

By Mia McPherson|October 16th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Sebastian County, White-crowned Sparrows, White-throated Sparrows|Tags: adult, dark-lored, eye, feeder, garden, pale-lored, perched, sparrow, sparrows, spring, suburban, vine, White-crowned Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, yard, Zonotrichia albicollis, Zonotrichia leucophrys|

Fall will bring White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows back to Arkansas for their non-breeding season. I’m super excited about their impending arrival.

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Carolina Wren Perched On Driftwood

By Mia McPherson|September 15th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Carolina Wrens, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, Akansas, alert, back view, calling, Carolina Wren, chattering, curious, down, driftwood, end, eye, feeder, garden, looking, perch, perched, Sebastian County, staring, summer, Thryothorus ludovicianus, urban, wren, wrens, yard|

While I was photographing a bathing Tufted Titmouse yesterday, a Carolina Wren snuck in silently and landed on a driftwood perch near where I was sitting.

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Young Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird Photos

By Mia McPherson|September 11th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Sebastian County, Video|Tags: Archilochus colubris, Arkansas, branch, eye, feeder, garden, head, hummingbird, hummingbirds, immature, male, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, scratching, Sebastian County, sky, staring, summer, urban, video, yard, young|

I'm really very excited to share photos and a video clip of a young male Ruby-throated Hummingbird that I focused on for quite some time yesterday morning.

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Spring Male White-breasted Nuthatch Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 28th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Sebastian County, White-breasted Nuthatches|Tags: adult, background, branch, bright, early morning, eye, feeder, garden, glowing, hanging out, male, morning light, nuthatch, nuthatches, Sitta carolinensis, spring, staring, stick, turn, urban, vine, waiting, White-breasted Nuthatch, yard|

This morning, I wanted to share a small selection of White-breasted Nuthatch photos I have taken since I arrived at my friend Steve Creek's home in Arkansas.

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Female Great-tailed Grackle Iris Variation

By Mia McPherson|April 23rd, 2023|Categories: Birds, Great-tailed Grackles, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, blackbirds, close up, eye, eyes, female, First Spring, grackle, grackles, Great-tailed Grackle, iris, park, portrait, Quiscalus mexicanus, Salt Lake County, spring, urban, Utah, variation|

While I photographed Common Loons at my local park this month I also took some female Great-tailed Grackle images and today I am sharing two of them.

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Migrating Common Loon Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 22nd, 2023|Categories: Birds, Common Loons, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, breeding plumage, Common Loon, cute, drinking, droplets, eye, flapping, foot, Gavia immer, head tilt, loon, loons, park, pond, raised, red, Salt Lake County, sneaking, splashing, spring, stretching, swimming, urban, Utah, water, waterbirds, wing lift, wings|

I went through more of the Common Loon photos that I have taken since the beginning of this month. I wanted to share more images of these beautiful birds.

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Lesser And Greater Yellowlegs Comparison

By Mia McPherson|September 17th, 2022|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Utah|Tags: calls, comparison, duckweed, duckweeds, eye, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, marsh, nares, pond, shallow, shorebirds, sky, standing, summer, Tringa flavipes, Tringa melanoleuca, water, wetlands, yellowlegs|

On Monday, I photographed both Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs foraging in a shallow duckweed-covered pond at Farmington Bay WMA early in the morning.

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Canada Goose In Flight – My First Bird Sighting Of 2022

By Mia McPherson|January 2nd, 2022|Categories: Birds, Canada Geese, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Branta canadensis, Canada Goose, close up, eye, flight, flying, geese, goose, landing, mountains, portrait, skimming, small in frame, snow, snowy, staring, tree, urban, Wasatch Mountains, water, waterfowl, winter|

The first bird that I could positively identify seeing for 2022 was a Canada Goose flying away from my local pond yesterday morning.

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An Eye For National Bison Day 2020

By Mia McPherson|November 7th, 2020|Categories: American Bison, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Bison, Bison, Bison bison, buffalo, bull, close up, eating, eye, grasslands, grazing, horn, mammals, portrait, prairies, snow|

Today bison are being reintroduced to lands that they were extirpated from centuries ago and for bison lovers that is cause for celebration of this iconic mammal.

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Rock Squirrel Close Up In A Fragrant Sumac Shrub

By Mia McPherson|September 28th, 2020|Categories: Rock Squirrels, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, branch, desert, eye, forest, Fragrant Sumac, grasping, mountains, Otospermophilus variegatus, Rhus aromatica, Rock Squirrel, shrub, sky island mountains, squirrel, squirrels, sumac, sumacs, summer|

The Rock Squirrel was grasping a sumac branch and the shrub was so close to me I wasn't even sure I was going to be able to focus on it.

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Least Chipmunk With An Eye Issue

By Mia McPherson|May 7th, 2020|Categories: Least Chipmunks, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: canyon, cataract, cataracts, chipmunk, chipmunks, cornea, corneal damage, eye, eye issue, injured eye, Least Chipmunk, mountains, Neotamias minimus, spring, Utah|

This Least Chipmunk was climbing in the shrubs and foraging on unopened flower buds when its right eye caught my eyes.

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Resting Canada Goose Close Up In Salt Lake County

By Mia McPherson|March 6th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Canada Geese, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Branta canadensis, Canada Goose, close up, eye, geese, goose, pond, portrait, resting, urban, water, waterfowl, winter|

Yesterday while photographing the birds at my local pond this resting Canada Goose caught my eye because of the bright blue water behind it and the great view I had of the eye of the goose while it had its bill tucked under its feathers.

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Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk Giving Me the Eye

By Mia McPherson|August 9th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: bird of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, close up, desert, eye, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, juvenile, perched, portrait, ranchlands, raptors, red tail, Red-tailed Hawk, summer, young|

This juvenile Red-tailed Hawk may have looked like it was giving me the eye when I photographed it but it was actually looking for one of its parents to bring it some food.

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American Bison Tears

By Mia McPherson|March 31st, 2017|Categories: American Bison, Antelope Island State Park, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: adult, American Bison, Bison bison, buffalo, bull, climate change, close up, desert island, extinction, eye, male, National Bison Legacy Act, spring, tears|

In this American Bison's tears I saw my own tears and deep concerns for what is happening to our environment now and the potential threats that future generations will have to face if we don't take action today.

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Semipalmated Plover with its eye on me

By Mia McPherson|October 24th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Semipalmated Plovers|Tags: adult, Charadrius semipalmatus, coast, coastal, eye, Gulf of Mexico, plover, plovers, sand, Semipalmated Plover, shore, shorebird, summer, wet|

This morning I wanted to keep my post simple and how much more simple could this image of a Semipalmated Plover with its eye on me be?

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