laughing – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Immature Red-tailed Hawk With ‘Tude

By Mia McPherson|October 24th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: attitude, autumn, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, cliff, desert, fall, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, laughing, laughter, lichen, looking, perception, raptors, red tail, Red-tailed Hawk, rocks, sky, surly, young|

While I was up in far northern Utah last week, the first bird I photographed was this immature Red-tailed Hawk that seemed to have a surly attitude about it.

The Funniest Yellow Warbler Photo I Have Ever Taken

By Mia McPherson|August 29th, 2020|Categories: Birds, East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: bill, branches, camera shake, canyon, foraged, funniest, funny, humor, immature/female, laughing, moth, moth eater, mountains, perched, River Hawthorn, Setophaga petechia, warbler, warblers, wood-warblers, Yellow Warbler|

Two days ago near a creek in the Wasatch Mountains I took the funniest Yellow Warbler photo I have ever taken in all the years that I have been photographing birds.

Female Yellow-bellied Marmot and Her Five Pups

By Mia McPherson|April 10th, 2018|Categories: Box Elder County, Utah, Yellow-bellied Marmots|Tags: adult, antics, boulder, close up, female, laughing, mammals, marmot, Marmota flaviventris, marmots, pup, pups, rubbing noses, running, siblings, spring, wildlife, wildlife photography, Yellow-bellied Marmot, young|

The most fun I had yesterday wasn't photographing my feathered friends instead it was while I photographed a female Yellow-bellied Marmot and her five delightful pups.