muddy – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Great Blue Herons At The Farmington Bay WMA Rookery

By Mia McPherson|January 29th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Conservation, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: Antelope Island State Park, Ardea herodias, clouds, clouds. peaks, cloudy, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Farmington Bay WMA, Great Blue Heron, heron, heron rookery, herons, ice, marsh, mountains, muddy, nest, nesting season, nests, peaks, road, rookery, sky, snow, snow covered, snowy, trees, Utah, wading birds, Wasatch Mountains, water, wetlands, winter|

Yesterday morning, I was surprised to find Great Blue Herons already at the nests of the rookery at Farmington Bay WMA. There were more than twenty herons.

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Late Summer Snowy Egret Images

By Mia McPherson|September 15th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, agitated, close up, Davis County, duckweed, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, foot, foraging, marsh, muddy, pond, portrait, Snowy Egret, strutting, summer, wading birds, water, wetlands|

This past Monday I focused on taking Snowy Egret images after taking photos of a Virginia Rail and Lesser Yellowlegs at a near empty pond At Farmington Bay.

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Adult Uinta Ground Squirrel Photos

By Mia McPherson|July 3rd, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, attention, background, canyon, close up, eating, gnarly, grass, grasses, green, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, mammals, mountains, muddy, nibbling, nose, portrait, sagebrush, silky, spring, squirrel, squirrels, standing, stump, summer, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus|

This morning I'm sharing some adult Uinta Ground Squirrel photos that were taken high in the Wasatch Mountains over the past month that I like a lot.

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Uinta Ground Squirrels Eating Earthworms

By Mia McPherson|April 26th, 2020|Categories: Summit County, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: break, canyon, chewing, chowing down, devouring, earthworm, earthworms, eating, grasses, ground, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, meal, mountains, mouth, mud, muddy, munching, nibbling, rain, spring, squirrel, squirrels, stuffing, tongue, tugging, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus, wet, worm, worms, wrestling|

Two days ago I photographed something I had never seen or documented when I stopped to take photos of a Uinta Ground Squirrel and it started eating a big, fat earthworm.

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Migrating Least Sandpiper at Red Rock Lakes NWR

By Mia McPherson|July 16th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Least Sandpipers, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: alkali flats, alkali pond, Calidris minutilla, fall migration, foraging, Least Sandpiper, migrating, muddy, sandpipers, shorebirds|

I photographed this migrating Least Sandpiper in the same pond as the Wilson's Phalarope chick at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge but on different days.

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Snowy Egret with muddy legs

By Mia McPherson|October 12th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: adult, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, flight, flying, marsh, muddy, muddy legs, Snowy Egret, wading birds, wetlands|

This adult Snowy Egret with muddy legs that were so dirty it covered up its "Golden Slippers".

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