fog – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Sanderlings In Breeding And Nonbreeding Plumage

By Mia McPherson|December 9th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Pinellas County, Sanderlings|Tags: adult, beach, breeding, Calidris alba, coast, coastal, fog, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, nonbreeding, running, Sanderling, sanderlings, shoreline, spring|

Sanderlings look very different in appearance during breeding season and winter and novice birders might even think they are two different species.

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People, Birds And A Sea Star In A Sea Fog

By Mia McPherson|February 28th, 2012|Categories: American Herring Gulls, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Laughing Gulls, Pinellas County, Ring-billed Gulls, Sea Stars|Tags: American Herring Gull, beach, beach walkers, feeding, fog, fog bank, foggy, Gulf, gull, gulls, Larus delawarensis, Larus smithsonianus, Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, low light, people, preening, resting, Ring-billed Gull, sand-crawled, sea fog, Sea Star, Sea Stars, starfish, sun, sunrise|

I'm glad I didn't turn around to head home when I saw the thick sea fog that morning, if I had I may have missed photographing some of these beautiful things.

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Coyotes, Birds, Cruddy Weather and Camaraderie

By Mia McPherson|December 17th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Coyotes, Utah|Tags: Antelope Island State Park, Camaraderie, Canis latrans, Coyote, Davis County, field, fog, friends, frost, nature photography, Utah|

Today I had the pleasure of photographing with not just one but two wonderful friends and fellow photographers. To be sure they are much more "fellow" than I am but I don't hold that against them.

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Low Light Bird Images

By Mia McPherson|November 24th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Low light, Roseate Spoonbills, Sanderlings|Tags: beach, bird photography, breeding plumage, Calidris alba, fog, foggy, juvenile, lagoon, low light, Platalea ajaja, preeniing, Roseate Spoonbill, Sanderling, sea fog, shell, water|

Because I live far from my family and have no children at home my yearly Thanksgiving tradition includes spending a part of my day out photographing birds, mostly early morning outings.

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Flat tires, Cattle, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Glacier National Park and Short-eared Owls

By Mia McPherson|August 20th, 2011|Categories: Alapacas, American Avocets, Cut Bank, Glacier National Park, Humor, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Short-eared Owls|Tags: alfalfa, Alpacas, Asio flammeus, Big Sky Sports & Service, bird photography, cattle, Centennial Mountains, Centennial Valley, conservation grazing, CRP land, ear tufts, early morning, fencepost, flat tires, fog, forests, Going-to-the-Sun-Road, grasslands, Lima, low light, mountains, nature, photography, Recurvirostra americana, Rod Wellington, sagebrush, Short-eared Owl, views, wildlife, willows|

Life is an adventure. I can't deny that, ever. There are times when there are bumps in the road, smooth sailing, or a multitude of mishaps that occur in a single journey.

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Northern Harrier in Low Light

By Mia McPherson|May 16th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: bird ID, bird photography, birds of prey, Circus hudsonius, falling snow, flight, fog, harrier, harriers, hawks, hovering, inversion, low light, Marsh hawk, marshes, Northern Harrier, raptors, snow, Wasatch Mountains, winter|

I don't mind the motion blur in these images and because northern harriers hunt by looking down at the ground for their prey I was very happy to get eye contact in both frames.

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Ghostly Coyote

By Mia McPherson|December 23rd, 2010|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Coyotes, Low light, Utah|Tags: Canis latrans, Coyote, fog, nature, nature photography, wildlife photographer, wildlife photography|

Yesterday there was a thick bank of fog over Antelope Island State Park but we saw quite a few coyotes moving in through it, all of them looked ghostly.

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Willet in a fog

By Mia McPherson|November 13th, 2010|Categories: Florida, Low light, Willets|Tags: adult, fog, foggy, lagoon, low light, sandpipers, shorebirds, Tringa semipalmata, water, Willet, willets|

The Willet is thought by many people to be a "plain brown bird" but I find their subtle coloring quite appealing whether they are in breeding or nonbreeding plumage.

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Short-eared Owl female – 13 minutes of joy

By Mia McPherson|November 12th, 2010|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Short-eared Owls|Tags: adult, Asio flammeus, female, fog, foggy, owl, owls, perched, Short-eared Owl, summer, valley, wooden post|

A foggy morning at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge brought me 13 minutes of joy after spotting a shape on the gravel road, it was a female Short-eared Owl and she flew up and landed on a post not too far from the road.

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Low Light Bird Images

By Mia McPherson|August 28th, 2010|Categories: American Kestrels, Bald Eagles, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Low light, Utah|Tags: Bald Eagle, bird photography, birds of prey, eagles, Falco sparverius, falcons, fog, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, hoar frost, low light, mood, photos, pictures, raptors|

What I appreciate a great deal about my avian photography is working with the light, not fighting it in the camera or in post processing, so I am presenting these images below as what they are, photos taken in low light.

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