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Wilson’s Snipe Photos Plus Two Interesting Facts About These Shorebirds

By Mia McPherson|April 19th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Wilson's Snipes|Tags: adult, bottomlands, close up, eyes, field of vision, Gallinago delicata, gular fluttering, leg, Lower Scarborough Slough, nearly 360 degree field of vision, portrait, roadside, shorebirds, slough, snipe, snipes, spring, standing, Wilson's Snipe|

Recently, I've had a couple of opportunities to photograph a Wilson's Snipe in the Lower Scarborough Slough at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

Photographing A Cooperative Immature Cooper’s Hawk

By Mia McPherson|October 1st, 2019|Categories: Birds, Cooper’s Hawks, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: Accipiters, autumn, canyon, close up, Cooper’s Hawk, cooperative, fall, fence, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, leg, mountains, perched, photograph, photographing, portrait, raptors, resting, surveying, tail spread, territory, walking, walking stretching, wing lift, wooden, young|

I couldn't have asked for a better birdy subject yesterday morning than this relaxed and cooperative immature Cooper's Hawk and I loved the setting it was in too.