late summer – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

American Robins Foraging On Hawthorn Berries

By Mia McPherson|September 21st, 2020|Categories: American Robins, Birds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, American Robin, berries, berry, branch, canyon, Crataegus rivularis, hawthorn, hawthorns, late summer, Morgan County, mountains, perched, ripe, River Hawthorn, robin, robins, summer, thrushes, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|

American Robins seemed especially abundant yesterday high in the Wasatch Mountains and I was happy to photograph them foraging on the ripe berries of a hawthorn.

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Adult Sage Thrasher Regurgitating A Sumac Seed

By Mia McPherson|September 17th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Sage Thrashers, Utah|Tags: adult, berry, Box Elder County, desert, Fragrant Sumac, late summer, leaves, mimids, Rhus aromatica, Sage Thrasher, seed, seep, shrub, sumac, sumacs, thrasher, thrashers, Utah|

Eleven days ago I photographed an adult Sage Thrasher regurgitating the seed of a sumac berry that was so close I could barely fit the thrasher in the frame.

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Adult Spotted Sandpiper – Small In The Frame

By Mia McPherson|February 7th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Spotted Sandpipers, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: Actitis macularia, adult, branch, branches, creek, fall colors, late summer, male, perched, polyandry, probable male, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, Spotted Sandpiper, summer|

I don't often see Spotted Sandpipers perched in trees so I was enchanted when this one landed on the bare branches that hung over a slow flowing creek.

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Late Summer Blue Wildflowers

By Mia McPherson|September 5th, 2017|Categories: Morgan County, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: Anchusa officinalis, blue, blue wildflowers, Borage, canyon, Common Bugloss, introduced, late summer, mountains, wildflower, wildflowers, wildlfowers|

I don't know what species of wildflowers these blue flowers are, I just know that I enjoyed seeing and photographing them.

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Two Snowy Egrets at Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|May 21st, 2016|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, foraging, late summer, marsh, pair, resting, river, Snowy Egret, stretching, wading birds, water, wetlands|

When I photographed these two Snowy Egrets at Bear River MBR last August they were already through raising their young for the season.

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