heavy fog – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

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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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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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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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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