foggy – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Relaxing Foggy Fall Morning At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|November 21st, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: Arkansas River, autumn, bottomland hardwood forest, bottomlands, fall, fall colors, fog, foggy, hills, leaves, morning, road, shrouded, trees, water|

My recent trip to Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma didn’t result in many bird photos, but it did gift me with some foggy scenery images.

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Charleston Lake Fog – A Start To A Beautiful Morning

By Mia McPherson|November 16th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Bald Eagles, Birds, Charleston Lake Park, Franklin County, Video|Tags: Arkansas, autumn, Bald Eagle, Charleston Lake, eagle, eagles, fall, fog, foggy, Franklin County, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, lake, morning, perched, raptors, tree, trees, water|

Today, I'm sharing a view and video of Charleston Lake shrouded in fog, with a Bald Eagle perched high in a tree. It was a beautiful start to the morning.

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What The Fluff? Great Egret Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 23rd, 2024|Categories: Birds, Eastern Cottonwood, Great Egrets, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, Ardea alba, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, breeding plumes, Cottonwood, cottonwood fluff, Eastern Cottonwood, egret, egrets, fallen log, fluff, fog, foggy, Great Egret, Horton Slough, leaves, log, misty, morning mist, plumes, Populus deltoides, preening, slough, spring, stump, tree, trees, wading birds, water|

I took this Great Egret photo yesterday at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. Even with the morning mist, I could tell something fluffy was stuck on its bill.

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Foggy Start To An April Morning At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|April 18th, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, White-tailed Deer|Tags: adult, blackbird, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, clouds, deer, dirt, doe, female, field, fog, foggy, forest, heavy fog, mammals, morning, Odocoileus virginianus, refuge, rolling in, shrubs, sky, spring, tree, trees, White-tailed Deer|

Yesterday, there was a foggy start to a morning of bird and wildlife photography at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. I really didn't mind the fog much at all.

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Ring-billed Gull Flying In Heavy Fog

By Mia McPherson|January 25th, 2024|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Ring-billed Gulls, Utah|Tags: adult, flight, flying, fog, foggy, gull, gulls, Larus delawarensis, low light, marsh, nonbreeding plumage, Ring-billed Gull, wetlands, winter|

Once upon a time, in a marsh not so far away, I photographed a Ring-billed Gull flying in heavy fog. It was the densest fog I have ever photographed in.

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Common Raven – My First Of Year Bird 2024

By Mia McPherson|January 2nd, 2024|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Common Ravens, Scenics, Utah|Tags: adult, Common Raven, corvids, Corvus corax, fog, foggy, frost, frosted, frosty, grass, grasses, hoar frost, marsh, perched, raven, ravens, road, sign, tree, wetlands, winter|

My first bird of the year for 2024 was a Common Raven I found yesterday morning on my way out to the auto tour loop of Bear River MBR.

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Rough-legged Hawk In Dense Fog

By Mia McPherson|December 19th, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, dense, fall, fog, foggy, frost, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, marsh, perched, raptor, Rough-legged Hawk, snow, wetlands|

Some bird photographers might not share a photo like this Rough-legged Hawk in dense fog that I took two years ago today at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

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Bring On The Snow!

By Mia McPherson|December 1st, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Dark-eyed Juncos, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Blue Herons, Ring-billed Gulls, Ring-necked Pheasants, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, Dark-eyed Junco, drinking, eating, feeder, female, fog, foggy, Great Blue Heron, gull, heavy fog, hen, heron, high key, ice, junco, Junco hyemalis, Larus delawarensis, marsh, park, perched, Phasianus colchicus, pheasant, Ring-billed Gull, Ring-necked Pheasant, running, shaking, snow, snowflake, sparrow, urban, wading birds, wetlands, whiteout, winter|

Snow is supposed to start falling around 10 a.m. where I live in northern Utah. It might be the first significant snowfall of this winter down in the valley.

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Halloween 2023 – The Web We Weave

By Mia McPherson|October 31st, 2023|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Miscellaneous, Pinellas County|Tags: fog, foggy, forest, Halloween, Mom, spider web, water droplets|

Tonight, across the country, ghouls, goblins, super heroes, cartoon characters, vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghosts, and witches will be ringing door bells asking for treats.

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Hello 2023!

By Mia McPherson|January 1st, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, dense, fog, foggy, Great Blue Heron, heavy fog, heron, herons, ice, marsh, snow, wading birds, wetlands, winter|

Hello 2023! I hope that 2023 will be wonderful for each and everyone of us. Right now it isn't clear what 2023 will bring.

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Spring Ruby-crowned Kinglet Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 21st, 2022|Categories: Birds, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, canyon, conifers, Corthylio calendula, crown, fog, foggy, kinglet, kinglets, low light, mountains, perched, prey, pussy willows, pussywillows, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, snow, snowy, spring, trees, Wasatch Mountains|

Yesterday morning I spent some time high in the Wasatch Mountains and came home with a few Ruby-crowned Kinglet photos that I liked enough to share.

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Great Blue Heron In Fog On The Playa At Farmington Bay

By Mia McPherson|January 20th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, fog, foggy, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, marsh, morning light, playa, resting, wading birds, wetlands, winter|

On my last trip to Farmington Bay WMA ten days ago one of my birdy subjects was an adult Great Blue Heron in a light fog out on the playa in morning light.

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Christmas Day Bird Photos Through the Years

By Mia McPherson|December 25th, 2021|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Common Mergansers, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Blue Herons, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, Bald Eagle, birds of prey, Common Merganser, diving ducks, duck ducks, eagle, eagles, flight, flying, foggy, four year old, Great Blue Heron, haks, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, hawk, heron, herons, immature, marsh, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, perched, post, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, sky, snow, snow storm, subadult, tree, water, wetlands, winter, young|

These are all birds I have photographed on Christmas Day through the years and all of them were photographed at Farmington Bay WMA.

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American Barn Owl Covered In Hoar Frost

By Mia McPherson|December 18th, 2021|Categories: American Barn Owls, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Barn Owl, autumn, bitter cold, cold, fall, fog, foggy, frost, hoar frost, marsh, owl, owls, perched, sign, snow, snowy, tough, Tyto furcata, waterfowl sign, wetlands|

This Barn Owl covered in hoar frost was taken during my first full winter living in Utah and it was also the subject of my first blog post here on my site.

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Merlin Memories

By Mia McPherson|October 12th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Merlins, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, branch, Falco columbarius, falcon, female/immature, first of season, fog, foggy, high key, marsh, Merlin, prairie subspecies, raptors, snow, snowy, tree, wetlands, winter|

I noticed in my Facebook memories that four years ago this morning was when I found my first of season Merlin out on the mudflats at Farmington Bay WMA.

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Christmas Day Bird Photos Thru The Years

By Mia McPherson|December 25th, 2020|Categories: Bald Eagles, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Common Goldeneyes, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Golden Eagles, Long-eared Owls, Pied-billed Grebes, Pinellas County, Red-tailed Hawks, Roseate Spoonbills, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Bald Eagle, Christmas Day, close up, Common Merganser, crayfish, eagle, eagles, first year, foggy, Golden Eagle, grebes, haek, hawks, immature, landing Bear River, Long-eared Owl, oel, owls, Pied-billed Grebe, portrait, Red-tailed Hawk, Roseate Spoonbill, snow, snow storm, snowy, spoonbill, wading birds, winter, young|

Today I wanted to share some of the Christmas Day bird photos I have taken through the years out in the field and close to home.

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Photographing A Great Blue Heron Flying In Dense Fog

By Mia McPherson|February 3rd, 2020|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: Ardea herodias, dense fog, flight, flying, focusing, fog, foggy, foggy conditions, Great Blue Heron, heavy fog, heron, herons, ice, landing, marsh, on the wing, photographing, primordial swamps, snow, time-traveler, wading birds, wetlands, winter|

These Great Blue Heron images also help me to "see" what this species would have looked like as they lived their lives in primordial swamps, estuaries and marshes hundreds of thousands of years ago.

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Photographing An American Herring Gull In Thick Fog At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|January 29th, 2020|Categories: American Herring Gulls, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Herring Gull, Bear River, fog, foggy, gull, gulls, heavy fog, ice, ice shelf, Larus smithsonianus, low light, nonbreeding plumage, photographing, riverbank, shoreline, snow, thick fog, water, winter|

After reviewing the images I took of the gull at home on a larger screen I was happy to see that it was a Herring Gull, gulls we only see in the winter here.

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Great Blue Herons In Heavy Fog At Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

By Mia McPherson|January 28th, 2020|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, challenges, fog, foggy, Great Blue Heron, heavy fog, heron, herons, ice, landing, marsh, skills, snow, wading birds, wetlands, winter|

These foggy Great Blue Heron photos are probably the foggiest images in my portfolio and despite that I truly like how they turned out.

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Happy Birthday Little Brother!

By Mia McPherson|January 12th, 2020|Categories: American Barn Owls, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: American Barn Owl, birds of prey, daytime, flight, flying, foggy, Happy Birthday, hunting, owl, owls, Owls of Utah, sky, snow, snowy, Tyto furcata, winter|

I wanted to take the time to wish my brother a Happy Birthday here on my blog and it seemed fitting to use this photo of a Barn Owl hunting in daylight that I took seven years ago today.

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I Should Have Listened To My Instincts Yesterday

By Mia McPherson|December 16th, 2019|Categories: American Barn Owls, Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Short-eared Owls, Utah|Tags: American Barn Owl, Asio flammeus, birds of prey, daylight, flats, flight, fog, foggy, instincts, low light, morning light, owl, owls, Owls of Utah, Short-eared Owl, snow, snowy, Tyto furcata, winter|

I might have taken some wonderful photos of birds in nice light yesterday if I had only listened to my instincts and gone out to look for birds.

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Resting Ruddy Duck In A Fog

By Mia McPherson|November 17th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Ruddy Ducks, Utah|Tags: autumn, duck, ducks, early morning, fall, fog, foggy, marsh, mist, Oxyura jamaicensis, resting, Ruddy Duck, steam fog, sunrise, Wasatch Mountains, water, waterfowl, wetlands|

I'm really glad I looked at these ducks in the fog and decided to take photos of them even though I was looking towards the sun instead of away from it like I typically do when photographing birds.

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Rough-legged Hawk On A Snowy Day At Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

By Mia McPherson|September 14th, 2019|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, beak, Buteo lagopus, Buteos, fog, foggy, hawks, Hawks of Utah, head on, high key, low light, male, marsh, open, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, saliva, snow storm, snowy, stare, wetlands, winter|

I didn't see or photograph as many Rough-legged Hawks last winter as I have in previous years but I did have a close up, extraordinary experience with one who was expelling a pellet on a snowy, foggy day at Bear River MBR.

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An Immature Red-tailed Hawk On A Foggy Morning In The Mountains

By Mia McPherson|September 13th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Red-tailed Hawks, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, alert, bedraggled, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, capture, damp, diving, eating, flight, fly over, flying, fog, foggy, freshly caught, hatch year, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, lifting off, metal post, mountains, prey, raptors, red tail, Red-tailed Hawk, talons, wet|

There are times when one bird can make my day and yesterday that bird was an immature Red-tailed Hawk that I spotted just before heading home after a trip into the mountains that included fog and other challenges.

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Rough-legged Hawk Expelling A Pellet Close Up Photos

By Mia McPherson|February 20th, 2019|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, Buteos, close up, clouds, foggy, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, light morph, low light, male, marsh, pellet, portrait, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, snow, snowy, wetlands, winter|

I've never been this close to a Rough-legged Hawk expelling a pellet before and it is likely that I will never be this fortunate again. This Rough-legged Hawk was my best bird for the day and I'm glad I stopped and waited for him to expel the pellet before moving on down the auto tour route.

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Winter Fog And Snow At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|January 12th, 2019|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: auto tour route, fog, foggy, ice, marsh, refuge, snow, vegetation, wetlands, winter|

So... I did get out into the field yesterday but heavy fog got in the way of being able to see birds and the great scenery I know I could see at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

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Adult Tundra Swan – White On White

By Mia McPherson|December 1st, 2018|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Swans, Ducks and Geese, Tundra Swans, Utah|Tags: adult, Cygnus columbianus, field of snow, fog, foggy, high key, snow, snowy, standing, swan, swans, Tundra Swan, white on white, white out|

Some of the Tundra Swan photos I took that day in near white out conditions were flat and unappealing to my eyes but some of them I really liked because of the white bird on white snow.

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Photographing Canada Geese in Flight in Fog and Golden Afternoon Light

By Mia McPherson|January 9th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Canada Geese, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: afternoon light, Branta canadensis, calling, Canada Geese, flight, flying, fog, foggy, geese, golden light, goose, photograph, photographing, pond, thick fog, waterfowl|

These two photos of Canada Geese were taken in very different lighting conditions and while both tested my skills as a bird photographer one of them required more thought from me and challenged my skills more too.

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Bear River MBR Barn Owls in Flight – All Small in the Frame

By Mia McPherson|November 6th, 2017|Categories: American Barn Owls, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Owls, Utah|Tags: American Barn Owl, birds of prey, flight, flying, fog, foggy, habitat, marsh, morning, owl, owls, Promontory Mountains, snow, snowy, snowy mountains, Tyto furcata, visual information, winter|

By having the Barn Owls smaller in the frame in my photos I can share more visual information about where these beautiful owls live, hunt and thrive.

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Foggy Morning Red-tailed Hawks & Turkey Vulture

By Mia McPherson|March 27th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Red-tailed Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Utah|Tags: balancing, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, catch light, Cathartes aura, close up, fence post, flight, fog, foggy, foggy condition, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lichen, lift off, low light, nesting materials, perched, portrait, post, raptors, red-tailed, Red-tailed Hawk, Turkey Vulture, vulture, vultures, weather|

It wasn't "partly sunny" as predicted but I enjoyed myself while photographing the Turkey Vulture and Red-tailed Hawks on a foggy morning even though it tested my skills and techniques.

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