inversion – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Photographing Bald Eagles At Farmington Bay WMA During An Inversion

By Mia McPherson|December 10th, 2020|Categories: Bald Eagles, Birds, Cooper’s Hawks, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: Accipiter cooperii, adult, air pollition, Antelope Island, Bald Eagle, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Circus hudsonius, Cooper’s Hawk, eagle, eagles, EPA, flight, flying, government, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, hawk, hawks, hazy, hazy sky, ice, inversion, inversions, marsh, Northern Harrier, on the wing, perched, polluted sky, pollution, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, sky, tree, turning, winter|

Think carefully before you make a trip to Utah to photograph our overwintering Bald Eagles in the valley. The inversions are awful and can be life threatening.

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West Desert Rock Squirrel On Top Of A Juniper

By Mia McPherson|November 9th, 2019|Categories: Rock Squirrels, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildlife|Tags: blue sky, inversion, juniper, mountains, Otospermophilus variegatus, Rock Squirrel, squirrel, squirrels, tree|

A soft blue sky, a juniper and a Rock Squirrel made me pretty happy two days ago because I don't have these squirrels in my viewfinder nearly as often as I'd like to.

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Bird Gatherings – Pied-billed Grebes, Great Egrets And More

By Mia McPherson|January 30th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Egrets, Pied-billed Grebes, Utah|Tags: Ardea alba, egret, egrets, flight, gathering, Great Egret, grebe, grebes, inversion, matsh, Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, skewer, wading birds, water, water dance, wedge, winter|

It is winter here but the birds know that spring is around the corner and more gatherings like the ones I saw two days ago will happen again and I hope I am able to slow down and enjoy it.

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Winter Inversions – Why It Is Depressing To Head Home During Our Inversions

By Mia McPherson|December 17th, 2018|Categories: Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Great Salt Lake, inversion, poisonous air, pollution, winter|

I do get depressed some days on the way home from being up in the mountains and our winter inversions are why. Sorry for being a downer today.

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Raccoon on Ice at Farmington Bay on New Years Day

By Mia McPherson|January 2nd, 2017|Categories: Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Raccoons, Utah|Tags: adult, bubble wrap, humor, ice, inversion, marsh, Procyon lotor, Raccoon, raccoons, running, sliding, slipping, snow, wetlands, winter|

While photographing a Great Blue Heron at the first bridge I spotted a dark shape running, slipping and sliding on the snow-covered ice and could see that it was a Raccoon.

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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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Northern Harrier in Low Light

By Mia McPherson|May 16th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: bird ID, bird photography, birds of prey, Circus hudsonius, falling snow, flight, fog, harrier, harriers, hawks, hovering, inversion, low light, Marsh hawk, marshes, Northern Harrier, raptors, snow, Wasatch Mountains, winter|

I don't mind the motion blur in these images and because northern harriers hunt by looking down at the ground for their prey I was very happy to get eye contact in both frames.

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