nest opening – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Tree Swallows Nesting In The Uinta Mountains

By Mia McPherson|May 25th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Summit County, Tree Swallows, Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Uinta Wasatch Cache National Forest, Utah|Tags: aspen, breeding season, chicks, feeding, female, forest, male, mountains, nest, nest entrance, nest opening, nesting cavity, nesting season, Quaking Aspen, sapsuckers, swallow, swallows, Tachycineta bicolor, teleconverter, tree, Tree Swallow, trees|

Tree Swallows and other birds should be nesting in the Uinta Mountains by now and I am itching to hop into my Jeep to drive up there to find them.

Visions Of Spring And Nesting House Wrens

By Mia McPherson|January 30th, 2020|Categories: Birds, House Wrens, Summit County, Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Utah|Tags: adult, aspen, cavity, clinging, forest, House Wren, nest, nest opening, nesting, nesting behavior, nesting cavity, nesting season, nesting tree, peeking, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, spring, tree, Troglodytes aedon, wren, wrens|

These nesting House Wren photos were taken two years ago at the end of May high up in the Uinta Mountains where stands of aspens are used as nesting trees.

Photographing Nesting House Wrens in the High Uintas

By Mia McPherson|June 2nd, 2018|Categories: House Wrens, Nesting Birds, Summit County, Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Utah|Tags: adult, aspen, cavity, cavity nesters, feather, forest, frustrations in photography, high Uintas, House Wren, Mirror Lake Highway, mountains, nest, nest opening, nesting, nesting behavior, nesting cavity, nesting season, photographing, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, secondary cavity nesters, Troglodytes aedon, wren, wrens|

Two days ago I spent time photographing nesting House Wrens in the high Uintas near Mirror Lake Highway, of interest to me is that two years ago I photographed Red-naped Sapsuckers using this same nesting cavity.