haze – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Subadult Green Heron In My Viewfinder

By Mia McPherson|July 29th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, Butorides virescens, Dockery Slough, downed tree, fallen tree, feathers, Green Heron, haze, heron, herons, lake, perched, preening, Sally Jones Lake, shaking, slough, sub-adult, subadult, summer, trees, vegetation, wading birds, water|

Yesterday morning, I had a marvelous time with a subadult Green Heron in my viewfinder at Dockery Slough on the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge.

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My Lifer Bobcat Photos At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|July 11th, 2024|Categories: Bobcats, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, Bobcat, bobcats, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, feline, felines, grass, grasses, gravel road, haze, itch, landscape, Lynx rufus, mammals, Oklahoma, road, scenic, scratching, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, shadows, sitting, summer, tree, trees|

Yesterday morning, I took my first Bobcat photos at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, thanks to my dear friend Steve Creek letting me know where it was.

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American Beaver At Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|June 7th, 2024|Categories: American Beavers, Johnston County, Oklahoma, Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, American Beaver, beaver, beavers, branches, Castor canadensis, grass, grasses, haze, leaves, looking up, mammals, road, Sandy Creek, spring, stick, tree, trees, tunnel, walking, wildflowers|

Yesterday morning, I had a wonderful surprise when an American beaver surfaced close to the Sandy Creek Bridge at Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge.

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Young Bald Eagle On The Road

By Mia McPherson|February 17th, 2024|Categories: Bald Eagles, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: auto tour loop, Bald Eagle, birds of prey, dirt road, eagle, eagles, habitat, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, haze, immature, marsh, mountains, observation tower, phragmites, phrags, raptors, sky, sub-adult, subadult, vault toilet, wetlands, winter, young|

This Bald Eagle photo isn't my best image of this species, and that is alright with me. I took the photo five days ago on the auto tour loop at Bear River MBR.

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Looking Back On The Winter Of 2022/2023

By Mia McPherson|March 9th, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: auto tour loop, grass, grasses, haze, Jeep, marsh, mirror, mountains, Promontory Mountains, road, sky, snow, wetlands, winter|

Spring is just days away now and I've been looking back on the winter of of 2022/2023. As a photographer it has kind of sucked for me. But Utah has gotten plenty of snow.

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Christmas Day American Kestrel

By Mia McPherson|December 25th, 2022|Categories: American Kestrels, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, afternoon, American Kestrel, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, clouds, Falco sparverius, falcon, falcons, Falcons of Utah, haze, hazy, male, marsh, mountains, peaks, perched, sky, snow, Wasatch Mountain Range, Wasatch Mountains, wetlands, winter, winter inversion, wooden post|

I photographed this Christmas Day American Kestrel in 2020 at Farmington Bay WMA. That Christmas Day was bright and sunny, today isn't going to be at all.

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Cooperative West Desert Red-tailed Hawk

By Mia McPherson|September 13th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Red-tailed Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, calm cooperative, confiding, desert, errant, feather, foothills, habitat, hawk, hawks, haze, head, inset, junipers, Juniperus osteosperma, look, mountains, over the shoulder, perched, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, sky, sky island mountains, smoky, summer, Utah Juniper|

Last week I photographed a very cooperative adult Red-tailed Hawk that was next to a road in the West Desert of Utah on a smoky morning.

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Adult Red-tailed Hawk Lifting Off

By Mia McPherson|September 11th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Red-tailed Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, altitude, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, desert, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, haze, juniper, Juniperus osteosperma, perched, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, sky island mountains, smoky, summer, taking off, Utah Juniper|

It didn't take long before the Red-tailed Hawk raised its wings to lift off from the juniper with a smoky blue sky in the background.

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Small Herd Of Mule Deer On A Smoky Morning

By Mia McPherson|September 10th, 2021|Categories: Mule Deer, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: deer, doe, grasses, haze, herd, juniper, Juniperus osteosperma, morning, mountains, Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus, sky island mountains, smoke, smoky, Utah Juniper, wildfire, young|

Yesterday morning I photographed a small herd of Mule Deer in a smoky haze while I was looking for birds in the West Desert.

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Rufous Hummingbird Plus Smoky Rising Sun Photos

By Mia McPherson|September 1st, 2021|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Low light, Rufous Hummingbirds, Utah, western skies|Tags: 7:40 am, bloom, blooming, Cleomella serrulata, desert island, eating, fall migration, feeding, flight, flying, haze, hovering, hummingbird, hummingbirds, immature/female, low light, morning, nectaring, pink wildflowers, rising, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, Rufous Hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, smoke, smoky, smoky haze, summer, sun, tail flare, wildfires, wildflowers|

Yesterday I went out to Antelope Island for the first time since April and I took hundreds of Rufous Hummingbird photos plus some of the rising sun.

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Photographing Immature American Robins In A Smoky Wildfire Haze

By Mia McPherson|August 7th, 2018|Categories: American Robins, Birds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: Amelanchier utahensis, American Robin, aspen, aspens, berry, haze, immature, perched, photograph, photographing, resting, robin, robins, shrub, smoke, smoky haze, thrushes, Turdus migratorius, Utah Serviceberry, wildfire|

While photographing some waxwings a flash of movement caught my eye and I spotted an immature American Robin reaching for a berry in a Utah Serviceberry shrub, I couldn't help myself, I had to photograph this young bird too.

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Franklin’s and Ring-billed Gulls Flying in Smoky Skies

By Mia McPherson|September 6th, 2017|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Franklin's Gulls, Ring-billed Gulls, Utah|Tags: adult, flight, flying, Franklin's Gull, gull, gulls, haze, Larus delawarensis, Leucophaeus pipixcan, marsh, Promontory Mountains, Ring-billed Gull, smoke, smoky sky, summer, wetlands, wildfires|

I did take some nice Franklin's and Ring-billed Gull photos in flight over the water of the marshes at the refuge despite the smoky sky.

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Utah’s Smoke Filled Skies From Antelope Island – Inversions Can Be Worse

By Mia McPherson|August 22nd, 2016|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah|Tags: environment, Great Salt Lake, haze, hazy sky, Ladyfinger Point, smoke, smokey skies, smokey sky, Wasatch Mountains, White Rock Bay|

The smoke-filled valley is ugly so yesterday I photographed Utah's smoke filled skies from Antelope Island State Park.

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Winter Inversion Along With -10 Degrees Fahrenheit

By Mia McPherson|January 5th, 2013|Categories: Tooele County, Utah|Tags: clouds, fence, fog, grasses, haze, inversion, nature, nature photography, Oquirrh Mountain Range, photography, pollution, sky, sunrise, Tooele County, unhealthy, Utah, winter|

A few of my non-Utahn friends have asked me what an inversion is after I have mentioned it, this image might help to show what an inversion can look like.

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