flowering – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Green-tailed Towhee Singing In A Mountain Canyon

By Mia McPherson|May 25th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Green-tailed Towhees, Summit County, Utah|Tags: adult, branch, canyon, courtship display, flowering, flowers, forest, Green-tailed Towhee, male, mountains, Pipilo chlorurus, serviceberry, shrub, singing, sparrow, sparrows, spring, towhee, towhees|

I had fun yesterday morning photographing a male Green-tailed Towhee singing in a mountain canyon, this was a bird I heard before I spotted him perched on a flowering branch.

Streambank Globemallow – Pretty in Pink

By Mia McPherson|July 17th, 2017|Categories: Clark County, Idaho, Wildflowers|Tags: bloom, blooming, flowering, Iliamna rivularis, Malvaceae, Mountain globemallow, pink, pink wildflowers, Streambank Globemallow, Streambank wild hollyhock, Wild hollyhock, wildflowers|

Streambank Globemallow has a few common names including Wild Hollyhock, Mountain Hollyhock, Mountain Globemallow and Streambank Wild Hollyhock

Green-tailed Towhee Singing in the Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|June 1st, 2017|Categories: Birds, Green-tailed Towhees, Morgan County, Utah|Tags: adult, branch, canyon, close up, flowering, flowering shrub, flowers, Green-tailed Towhee, head tilt, leafy, male, mountains, perched, Pipilo chlorurus, portrait, sagebrush, serviceberry, shrub, singing, sparrow, sparrows, towhee, towhees, white flowers|

One good bird can make the the day when photographing birds in the field, yesterday that bird was a male Green-tailed Towhee I spotted perched on a shrub in a canyon in the Wasatch Mountains.