mist – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Great Egret In A Morning Mist At Tishomingo Wildlife Management Unit

By Mia McPherson|June 20th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Great Egrets, Marshall County, Oklahoma, Tishomingo Wildlife Management Unit|Tags: adult, Ardea alba, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, egret, egrets, fog, foraging, forest, Great Egret, lake, mist, morning light, morning mist, pond, spring, stumps, trees, vapor, wading birds, water|

Is this a landscape photo with a Great Egret in it or a bird image with a bottomlands hardwood forest habitat in it? You get to decide, it doesn't matter to me.

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Northern Utah Winter Waterfowl Photo

By Mia McPherson|February 27th, 2022|Categories: American Wigeons, Birds, Canada Geese, Great Blue Herons, Mallards|Tags: American Wigeon, Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea herodias, Branta canadensis, Canada Goose, dabbling ducks, desert, duck, ducks, fog, frost, geese, goose, grasses, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, hoar frost, Mallard, mallards, Mareca americana, mist, pond, ranchlands, snow, steam fog, water, waterfowl, wigeon, wigeons, winter|

The photo I liked the most from yesterday was of winter waterfowl on a small pond with mist rising from the water and hoar frost covering the vegetation.

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Misty American Coot

By Mia McPherson|January 23rd, 2022|Categories: American Coots, Birds, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Coot, coot, coots, fog, Fulica americana, mist, misty, morning, pond, steam fog, urban, water, winter|

Yesterday morning I photographed birds at my local pond in freezing temps and this American Coot in a morning mist was one of my favorite images that I took.

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Common Merganser In A Morning Mist

By Mia McPherson|December 14th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: autumn, backlit, Common Merganser, diving ducks, duck, ducks, fall, immature, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, mist, morning, pond, urban, water, waterfowl, young|

It was early in the morning when I photographed this immature Common Merganser in a morning mist almost five years ago at my local pond.

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Resting Ruddy Duck In A Fog

By Mia McPherson|November 17th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Ruddy Ducks, Utah|Tags: autumn, duck, ducks, early morning, fall, fog, foggy, marsh, mist, Oxyura jamaicensis, resting, Ruddy Duck, steam fog, sunrise, Wasatch Mountains, water, waterfowl, wetlands|

I'm really glad I looked at these ducks in the fog and decided to take photos of them even though I was looking towards the sun instead of away from it like I typically do when photographing birds.

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Lake Mist at the Lower Lake of Red Rock Lakes NWR

By Mia McPherson|June 11th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: American Avocet, ephemeral pond, lake, lake mist, Lower Lake, mist, misty, mountains, Recurvirostra americana, sunrise, Tringa semipalmata, Willet|

Waking up and seeing the lake mist at the Lower Lake and an ephemeral pond near it with birds in the air, on the lake and feeding in the pond is amazing.

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The Morning Mist at Red Rock Lakes NWR

By Mia McPherson|June 16th, 2012|Categories: American Coots, Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: American Coot, Centennial Valley, coot, coots, Fulica americana, lake fog, Lower Lake, mist, morning mist, nature photography, photography, sunrise|

I don't have much time to post today but I wanted to share a few photos taken this week of the mists at the Lower Lake of Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Montana. Red Rock Lakes NWR is an incredibly wild and beautiful location that has stolen a piece of my heart.

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