manure – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Kamas Valley Killdeer

By Mia McPherson|August 23rd, 2023|Categories: Birds, Kamas Valley, Killdeer, Summit County, Utah|Tags: adult, Charadrius vociferus, clover, cow poop, crap, grass, grasses, Killdeer, killdeers, manure, mountain valley, pasture, pink clover, pink clovers, plover, plovers, ranchlands, shorebirds, summer, valley, wet meadow|

Last week, in the Kamas Valley in Summit County, Utah I was pleased to take Killdeer photos in a wet meadow with pink clovers and piles of cow manure.

Least Sandpiper In Kamas Valley

By Mia McPherson|August 20th, 2023|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Kamas Valley, Least Sandpipers, Summit County, Utah|Tags: Calidris minutilla, grass, grasses, identification, Least Sandpiper, manure, migrating, migration, pasture, peeps, ranchlands, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, summer, wet meadow|

The most surprising and wonderful bird I saw and photographed on Thursday with my friend, April Olson, was a migrating Least Sandpiper in the Kamas Valley.

Birds on Poopy Perches

By Mia McPherson|May 26th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Horned Larks, Humor, Long-billed Curlews, Utah, Willets|Tags: bird photography, bison poop, curlew, curlews, Eremophila alpestris, Horned Lark, humor, lark, larks, Long-billed Curlew, manure, Numenius americanus, perch, poopy, poopy perches, Tringa semipalmata, Willet|

I bet you are wondering what I mean by "Poopy perches", I know I would be if I saw that title. Am I talking about perches that are man-made and ugly? Or perches that are just not all that appealing visually?