land – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Great Blue Heron Photos In Winter

By Mia McPherson|November 8th, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, close up, ducks, flight, fluffed up, flying, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, hunting, ice, ice shelf, land, landing, marsh, photos, wading birds, walking, watching, wetlands, winter, winter wonderland|

If you want to take Great Blue Heron photos in winter, on snow and ice, then head to Bear River MBR in Utah after the marsh freezes and the snow starts to fall.

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2019 Is Nearing Its End

By Mia McPherson|December 30th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: Broad-tailed Hummingbird, hummingbird, hummingbirds, land, landing, male, Selasphorus platycercus|

2019 is nearing its end and I've been going back through the photos that I've taken this year. Wow, what a year it has been for my bird photography and so much more.

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Snowy Egrets Foraging, Fighting, Landing And Lifting Off

By Mia McPherson|September 25th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, defensive posture, duckweed, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, flight, foraging, land, landing, marsh, pond, Snowy Egret, taking off, ticked off, wading bird, wading birds, wetlands, wings raised|

These nine Snowy Egret photos are just a fraction of the images I took of a small flock of these snowy, white birds with golden slippers yesterday morning on the marshes of Farmington Bay WMA.

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Flurry of Snowies in August

By Mia McPherson|August 14th, 2015|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, Bear River, congregation, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, feathers, flight, flurry, flying, land, landing, marsh, preening, rousing, scratching, shaking, Snowy Egret, stretch, stretching, wading birds, wetlands|

There was lots of bird activity yesterday at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and a flurry of Snowy Egrets kept things interesting early in the morning.

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