Hurricane Ike – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Pair of Reddish Egrets Fighting Over Food

By Mia McPherson|February 16th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets|Tags: egret, egrets, Egretta rufescens, fighting, food, Hurricane Ike, lagoon, north beach, Reddish Egret, wading birds, windy|

I had been photographing just one Reddish Egret dancing in the waves as it caught fish after fish and fought with the Ring-billed and Laughing Gulls over its prey when a second Reddish Egret flew in.

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Laughing Gull Sliding Across the Water

By Mia McPherson|October 25th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Laughing Gulls, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, gull, gulls, Hurricane Ike, Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, nonbreeding plumage, sea birds, sliding, splashing, water|

Of the images I took that day on the beach, and there were tons of them, this image of a Laughing Gull sliding across the water as it chased a fish in the shallow waves was one of my favorites.

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Sunrise Skimmers with sandstone texture

By Mia McPherson|August 13th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Black Skimmers, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County|Tags: bird photography, Black Skimmer, clouds, dawn, flight, flock, Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Ike, noise reduction, photo art, Rynchops niger, skimmers, texture filter|

Both versions of this frame of the sunrise Black Skimmers bring back memories from the morning I created this photo of them in their pre-dawn flight.

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4 Years ago today when Hurricane Ike stirred things up at Fort De Soto

By Mia McPherson|September 12th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Black Skimmers, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Laughing Gulls, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets, Ring-billed Gulls, Willets|Tags: bird photography, Black Skimmer, Egmont Key, egret, egrets, Egretta rufescens, Gulf of Mexico, gull, gulls, Hurricane Ike, Larus delawarensis, Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, Reddish Egret, Ring-billed Gull, Rynchops niger, skimmer, Tringa semipalmata, wading birds, waves, Willet|

Four years ago today Hurricane Ike was out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and the waves that it generated made a strong splash at Fort De Soto County Park.

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Reddish Egret, Laughing and Ring-billed Gulls

By Mia McPherson|January 17th, 2011|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Laughing Gulls, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets, Ring-billed Gulls|Tags: adult, bait fish, baitfish, beach, coast, coastal, egret, egrets, Egretta rufescens, feeding frenzy, fish, Gulf of Mexico, gull, gulls, Hurricane Ike, Larus delawarensis, Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, Reddish Egret, Ring-billed Gull, water, waves|

There were quite a few Laughing Gulls on and near the shoreline, a few Ring-billed Gulls and two Reddish Egrets hunting on the beach that day.

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