gnarly – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Adult Uinta Ground Squirrel Photos

By Mia McPherson|July 3rd, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, attention, background, canyon, close up, eating, gnarly, grass, grasses, green, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, mammals, mountains, muddy, nibbling, nose, portrait, sagebrush, silky, spring, squirrel, squirrels, standing, stump, summer, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus|

This morning I'm sharing some adult Uinta Ground Squirrel photos that were taken high in the Wasatch Mountains over the past month that I like a lot.

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West Desert Mourning Dove Images

By Mia McPherson|May 26th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Mourning Doves, Tooele County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, breeze, breezy, desert, dove, doves, fence post, gnarly, male, morning, Mourning Dove, perched, sky island mountains, spring, wooden post, Zenaida macroura|

This morning I am sharing three simple Mourning Dove images that I took two days ago out in the sky island mountains of Utah's West Desert.

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West Desert Rock Wren Photos

By Mia McPherson|May 30th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Rock Wrens, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, back view, desert, early morning light, fence post, foothills, gnarly, juniper, Juniperus osteosperma, Rock Wren, Salpinctes obsoletus, singing, sky island mountains, spring, Utah Juniper, wooden post, wren, wrens|

I have been able to take more Rock Wren photos in the West Desert the last two times I have wandered out there.

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Swainson’s Hawk On A Gnarly Fence Post

By Mia McPherson|March 31st, 2021|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Swainson's Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo swainsoni, Buteos, early morning light, fence post, gnarly, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, light morph, raptors, spring, Swainson's Hawk|

I haven't found my first of season Swainson's Hawk yet but I expect that to change any day now as spring migration is almost in full swing.

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Focusing On A Rousing Short-eared Owl Adult Male

By Mia McPherson|December 19th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Short-eared Owls, Utah|Tags: adult, Asio flammeus, birds of prey, fence post, gnarly, male, owl, owls, Owls of Utah, perched, rousing, Short-eared Owl, weathered|

This adult male Short-eared Owl was perched on a weathered fence post not far from the road when I photographed it rousing and I loved the way it seemed to be looking right as me as it shook its feathers.

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