iris – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Female Great-tailed Grackle Iris Variation

By Mia McPherson|April 23rd, 2023|Categories: Birds, Great-tailed Grackles, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, blackbirds, close up, eye, eyes, female, First Spring, grackle, grackles, Great-tailed Grackle, iris, park, portrait, Quiscalus mexicanus, Salt Lake County, spring, urban, Utah, variation|

While I photographed Common Loons at my local park this month I also took some female Great-tailed Grackle images and today I am sharing two of them.

Immature Black-billed Magpie Portrait At Sunrise

By Mia McPherson|November 9th, 2021|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Black-billed Magpies, Davis County, Utah|Tags: autumn, Black-billed Magpie, close up, corvids, desert island, fall, hatch year, immature, iris, magpie, magpies, Pica hudsonia, portrait, sunrise, young|

I was looking through my archives yesterday when I came across this immature Black-billed Magpie portrait taken at sunrise on Antelope Island State Park.

The Earth Laughs In Flowers

By Mia McPherson|July 12th, 2015|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Wildflowers|Tags: blue flag iris, Emerson, iris, Iris missouriensis, Rocky Mountain Iris, western blue flag, wildflower, wildflowers|

During the wildflower season is it easy to see why Emerson said that the earth laughs in flowers.