lupines – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Young Coyote Near A Creek In The Mountains

By Mia McPherson|July 18th, 2022|Categories: Coyotes, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: blooming, Canis latrans, canyon, Coyote, coyotes, creek, creekside, grasses, immature, injured eye, lupine, lupines, Lupinus argenteus, mammals, mountains, purple wildflowers, riparian habitat, Silvery Lupine, song dog, summer, vegetation, water, wildflowers, young|

Yesterday morning while photographing bees on wildflowers I spotted a young Coyote walking towards a mountain creek through some grass and sagebrush.

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Mother Nature, Wildflowers and Moms

By Mia McPherson|May 13th, 2018|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Wildflowers|Tags: lupine, lupines, Lupinus argenteus, Mother's Day, Silvery Lupine, wildflowers|

There may be a bit of sunshine today and I hope there is so me and my Mom can get out and enjoy some of the beauty that Mother Nature provides us with each and every day.

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Low light Ferruginous Hawk in Flight with Nesting Material

By Mia McPherson|June 10th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Ferruginous Hawks, Montana|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo regalis, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, flying, hawks, Hawks of Montana, light morph, low light, lupines, nesting material, raptors, sage, sagebrush, sagebrush sea, sagebrush steppe, spring, valley|

I was able to create several images of this Ferruginous Hawk in flight with nesting materials over a field of sage and lupines despite the low light.

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Greater Sage-Grouse among the Lupine

By Mia McPherson|October 14th, 2014|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Greater Sage-Grouse, Montana|Tags: adult, Centrocercus urophasianus, conservation, female, Greater Sage-Grouse, grouse, hen, lupine, lupines, sage-grouse, upland game birds, wildflowers|

If hope is the thing with feathers then I want to heap as much hope as I can find into the future of Greater Sage-Grouse.

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