maple swamp – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

World Water Day 2023

By Mia McPherson|March 22nd, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Centennial Valley, Conservation, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, Glacier County, Glacier National Park, Juab County, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Sawgrass Lake Park, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, American Coots, aspens, Box Elder County, canyon, Centennial Mountains, Centennial Valley, clouds, conifers, coots, creek, Cygnus columbianus, Fish Springs Range, flight, flock, Florida, flying, footbridge, foothills, grass, grasses, hills, ice, immature, Juab County, maple swamp, marsh, mountains, Pinellas County, pond, Promontory Mountains, rapids, reflections, river, rocks, rushing, sage, sagebrush, Sawgrass Lake Park, shadows, shrubs, sky, snow, snow-topped, spring, summer, swamp, swan, swans, trail, trees, Tundra Swan, Utah, valley, water, waterfowl, west desert, wetlands, Wigeon Pond, willows, winter, young|

Today is World Water Day. The theme for World Water Day 2023 is: Accelerate Change. Every human being on this planet is roughly 60% water.

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Green Heron In A Maple Swamp At Saw Grass Lake Park

By Mia McPherson|April 1st, 2020|Categories: Birds, Florida, Green Herons, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, boardwalk, Butorides virescens, Covid-19 pandemic, flash, Green Heron, heron, herons, low light, maple swamp, swamp, wading birds, wetlands|

This Green Heron was photographed not long after I first started focusing on and photographing birds while I still lived in Florida.

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Me With An Anhinga Waiting Out A Storm Plus The Story Behind This Image

By Mia McPherson|March 11th, 2019|Categories: Anhingas, Birds, Florida, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: anhinga, Anhinga anhinga, anhingas, boardwalk, lightning, maple swamp, observation deck, rain, rain storm, storm, summer, swamp, thunder storm|

The story behind the images I took of the Anhinga waiting out the storm isn't a happy or pleasant one but I still liked the images I took.

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Stretching Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park

By Mia McPherson|November 8th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Florida, Green Herons, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, branch, Butorides virescens, Green Heron, heron, herons, inland, maple swamp, stretching, swamp, wading bird, wading birds, water, wetlands|

This Green Heron was photographed from and elevated boardwalk at Sawgrass Lake Park, it had been preening when I walked slowly up to it and when it stretched its wing I took this image.

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Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park – From My Early Days of Being a Bird Photographer

By Mia McPherson|December 10th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Florida, Green Herons, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, Butorides virescens, Green Heron, herons, maple swamp, reflection, swamp, wading birds, water, wetlands|

I photographed this Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park in Pinellas County, Florida with my first DSLR, a Nikon D70, when I was just getting into bird photography.

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An Anhinga’s Bad Hair Day

By Mia McPherson|December 5th, 2014|Categories: Anhingas, Birds, Florida, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, anhinga, Anhinga anhinga, anhingas, close up, male, maple swamp, Pinellas County, portrait, snake bird, summer, swamp, wetlands|

If I were an Anhinga and stretching it even further if I were a male Anhinga this is what I would look like today.

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Being Squirrely – Eastern Gray Squirrel Photo

By Mia McPherson|November 25th, 2014|Categories: Eastern Gray Squirrels, Florida, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, Eastern Gray Squirrel, male, maple swamp, park, Sciurus carolinensis, squirrel, squirrels, summer, tree squirrel, tree squirrels|

Time got away from me today and I am feeling a little squirrely tonight so I thought what better to post than an Eastern Gray Squirrel?

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Green Heron reacts to a Broad-winged Hawk

By Mia McPherson|August 24th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Green Herons, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, behavior, Broad-winged Hawk, Butorides virescens, Green Heron, heron, herons, maple swamp, perched, predator, reacting, reacts, swamp, wading birds, wetlands|

One morning in 2008 I photographed this Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park in Pinellas County, Florida as it perched and preened on broken branch that was laying in the water.

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