nests – 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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Great Blue Herons At The Farmington Bay Rookery

By Mia McPherson|February 18th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, breeding season, flight, flying, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, marsh, mating season, nest, nest building, nesting, nesting season, nests, perched, pole, rookery, sky, wading birds, wetlands, winter, wooden pole|

The breeding season has begun for the Great Blue Herons at the Farmington Bay rookery and throughout northern Utah.

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Winter Great Blue Heron On Ice

By Mia McPherson|March 1st, 2020|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, cold, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, ice, icy, marsh, nest building, nesting, nests, pond, snow, standing, wading birds, warm, wetlands, winter|

This may have been my last chance this winter to photograph a Great Blue Heron on ice so I am glad I took photos of it as it landed and cautiously walked around on the ice.

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Will Grebes Nest This Year At Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge?

By Mia McPherson|February 12th, 2020|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Western Grebes|Tags: adults, Aechmophorus occidentalis, breeding season, dike maintenance, emergent vegetation, grebe, grebes, lack of water, marsh, nest, nesting, nests, phragmites mitigation, prescribed burns, rushes, water, Western Grebe|

When I was at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge three days ago I realized that in just a few weeks the Clark's and Western Grebes will be returning to the marshes for their breeding season.

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Marsh Wren Nesting Season Has Begun At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|March 23rd, 2019|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Marsh Wrens, Utah|Tags: adult, breeding season, Cistothorus palustris, male, marsh, Marsh Wren, mating season, nesting material, nests, singing, spring, territory, wetlands, wren, wrens|

Marsh Wren nesting season has begun here in northern Utah and in my opinion one of the best places to see, listen to and photograph them is from the auto tour route at Bear River MBR.

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Cedar Waxwings in a Canyon & Memories of My Grandmother From Long Ago

By Mia McPherson|June 13th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Cedar Waxwings, Morgan County, Utah|Tags: adult, berries, Bombycilla cedrorum, branch, branches, canyon, Cedar Waxwing, forest, mountains, nests, perched, privet, waxwing, waxwings|

I was looking through my archives from last year and came across some images I had taken last June in Morgan County, Utah that I hadn't processed yet and I came across these Cedar Waxwing photos.

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Red-naped Sapsucker Showing Its Tongue

By Mia McPherson|August 28th, 2016|Categories: Birds, High Uintas, Red-naped Sapsuckers, Summit County, Uinta National Forest, Utah|Tags: adult, aspen, cavity, forest, nest, nesting cavity, nesting tree, nests, out, Red-naped Sapsucker, sapsucker, sapsuckers, Sphyrapicus nuchalis, tongue, tree, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

I came across this image and realized that the Red-naped Sapsucker had its tongue stuck out and I hadn't noticed that before.

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Cliff Swallow Nesting Season at Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|March 26th, 2016|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Cliff Swallows, Glacier County, Montana, Utah|Tags: adult, Cliff Swallow, flock, mud, mud pellet, nesting material, nests, perched, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, swallow, swallows|

More of the swallows will migrate to the refuge very soon and the Cliff Swallow nesting season will start.

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The Demise of the Magical Sapsucker Tree and the Luck of Finding More Nesting Cavity Trees

By Mia McPherson|June 14th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark County, House Wrens, Idaho, Red-naped Sapsuckers, Targhee National Forest|Tags: aspen, branch, campsite, cavities, cavity, cavity nesters, forest, House Wren, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Montana, mountains, nest, nesting cavity, nesting tree, nests, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, Red-naped Sapsucker, safe haven, sapsucker, sapsuckers, Sphyrapicus nuchalis, tree, Troglodytes aedon, woodpecker, wren, wrens|

I am heart-broken about losing the Magical Sapsucker Tree but I am glad to have found a few more where the chicks are thriving and are safe so far.

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Nesting Cliff Swallows

By Mia McPherson|May 23rd, 2014|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Cliff Swallows, East Canyon State Park, Utah|Tags: adult, bird photography, Cliff Swallow, cliffs, nesting, nesting material, nests, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, swallows|

Yesterday at East Canyon State Park in Morgan County I was able to photograph nesting Cliff Swallows on a cliff face that overlooks the reservoir.

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Black-billed Magpie building a nest after a snow

By Mia McPherson|March 9th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Black-billed Magpies, Davis County, Utah|Tags: Black-billed Magpie, Davis County, magpie, magpies, mud, nest, nest building, nesting, nesting season, nests, Pica hudsonia, snow, twigs|

I felt that I had a real treat being able to photograph this Black-billed Magpie building a nest after a snow.

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