mid air – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

California Gull Playing With A Stick

By Mia McPherson|January 25th, 2023|Categories: Birds, California Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: behavior, California Gull, flight, flying, gull, gulls, Larus californicus, mid air, play, playing, pond, shoreline, snagging, stick, urban, water, winter, winter plumage|

This morning I'm sharing two photos of a California Gull playing with a stick at one of my local ponds that I took during the winter in January of 2021.

Sage Thrasher With Fragrant Sumac Berry In Mid Air In Dawn’s Golden Light

By Mia McPherson|October 2nd, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Sage Thrashers, Utah|Tags: adult, berry, desert, Fragrant Sumac, golden light, mid air, Oreoscoptes montanus, Promontory, Rhus aromatica, Sage Thrasher, saliva, swallowed, thrasher, thrashers|

The Sage Thrasher seemed like it was bathed in golden light when suddenly I saw that it had a sumac berry which it tossed it into the air and proceeded to swallow it whole.

Photographing Pied-billed Grebes With Crayfish – Oh What Fun Can Be Had

By Mia McPherson|December 27th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Pied-billed Grebes, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: bill, crawdads, crawfish, crayfish, fun, funny, grebe, grebes, head, legs, mid air, photograph, photographing, Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, pond, shaking, surfacing, tearing, urban, winter|

The funniest photo I took yesterday, the one that made me laugh out loud the hardest, was when a crayfish landed on the Pied-billed Grebe's head after the bird shook it hard.