face – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Leucistic American Coot Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 13th, 2023|Categories: American Coots, Birds, Great-tailed Grackles, Leucistic, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Coot, back view, coot, coots, dirt, face, foraging, Fulica americana, grackle, grackles, grass, Great-tailed Grackle, leucism, leucistic, male, morning, plumage aberration, preening, profile view, Quiscalus mexicanus, Salt Lake County, spring, staring, swimming, tail, tree trunk, urban, Utah, water|

Over the past four months I wanted closer, better photos of the leucistic American Coot that I found on January 2nd. My patience and persistence paid off.

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Least Chipmunk And Serviceberries

By Mia McPherson|August 12th, 2022|Categories: Least Chipmunks, Summit County, Utah, Utah Serviceberry, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: Amelanchier utahensis, berries, berry, breakfast, canyon, chipmunk, chipmunks, chowing down, close up, eating, face, flowering shrub, fruit, fruiting shrub, fruits, funny, Least Chipmunk, leaves, mountains, ripe, serviceberries, serviceberry, squirrel, squirrels, staring, stretching, summer, Utah Serviceberry|

Warning: More cute Least Chipmunk photos ahead plus serviceberries high in the Wasatch Mountain Range. I just can't resist them and I don't want to.

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Celebrate The Spiders Of Antelope Island – Spider Fest On August 3, 2019

By Mia McPherson|July 27th, 2019|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Mule Deer, Utah, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: activities, face, festival, Mule Deer, Neoscona oaxacensis, Odocoileus hemionus, prey, spider, Spider Festival, SpiderFest, spiders, web, webs, Western Spotted Orbweaver|

Mark your calendars because there is a yearly Spider Festival on Antelope Island State Park and this year the festival is being held next Saturday on August 3, 2019.

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Yellow-bellied Marmot Pup With A Pale Face In Northern Utah

By Mia McPherson|November 29th, 2018|Categories: Box Elder County, Utah, Yellow-bellied Marmots|Tags: burrow, face, marmot, Marmota flaviventris, marmots, pale, pup, rocks, walking, Yellow-bellied Marmot, young|

At one of the burrows where I photographed Yellow-bellied Marmot pups in the spring there was one pup of the five that had a paler face than the other four had and I thought that was interesting.

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