mitigation – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Phragmites Fix Or Fail At Bear River MBR?

By Mia McPherson|October 5th, 2021|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Conservation, Utah|Tags: auto tour loop, auto tour route, cattle, conservation, control, controlled burn, fail, fall, fix, ice, introduced, invasive, marsh, mitigation, phragmites, Phragmites australis, phrags, Promontory Mountains, sky, snow, southwest corner, spraying, spring, summer, wetlands, winter|

Phragmites fix or fail? I think my photos through the years provide the answer.

Reasons Why We May Be Seeing Fewer Northern Harriers At Farmington Bay

By Mia McPherson|October 25th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: Circus hudsonius, harrier, harriers, hawks, Hawks of Utah, hovering, hunting, immature, loss of habitat, male, marsh, Marsh hawk, mitigation, nesting success, Northern Harrier, phragmites, phrags, prey, raptors, young|

I don't see nearly as many harriers over the marshes at Farmington Bay as I used to five to ten years ago but the marshes have changed some since I moved to northern Utah.

Killdeer Nesting In Last Year’s Ashes

By Mia McPherson|June 24th, 2019|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Killdeer, Utah|Tags: adult, ashes, back lit, burn area, Charadrius vociferus, Killdeer, marsh, mitigation, nest, nesting, phragmites, plover, plovers, scrape, shorebirds, wetlands|

Both the female and male Killdeer incubate so there is no way for me to tell what the gender of this Killdeer is but it stayed on the scrape while I photographed it and didn't move.