non-native – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Urban Eurasian Collared-Dove In Morning Light

By Mia McPherson|April 8th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Eurasian Collared-Doves, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, close up, curb, dove, doves, Eurasian Collared-Dove, introduced, native, non-native, portrait, spring, Streptopelia decaocto, urban|

Two days ago I shared a close photo of a curbside Mourning Dove. Today I am sharing a Eurasian Collared-Dove image taken at nearly the same time and same place.

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Purple Loosestrife, Curlycup Gumweed and Chicory

By Mia McPherson|June 3rd, 2023|Categories: Chicory, Curlycup Gumweed, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Purple Loosestrife, Utah|Tags: blooming, blooms, blossoms, blue wildflowers, Chicory, Cichorium intybus, Common Chicory, Curlycup Gumweed, flowering, flowers, Grindelia squarrosa, introduced, invasive, loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, marsh, native, non-native, nonnative, pink wildflowers, Purple Loosestrife, purple wildflowers, summer, wetlands, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

I took these photos of Purple Loosestrife, Curlycup Gumweed, and Chicory last year while driving around Farmington Bay WMA in September.

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Western Honey Bee And Common Mullein Photos

By Mia McPherson|September 3rd, 2021|Categories: Honey Bees, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Apis mellifera, bee, bees, bloom, blooming, canyon, Common Mullein, European Honeybee, flight, flowering, flying, introduced, mountains, mullein, mulleins, non-native, nonnative, pollen, riparian zone, summer, Western Honeybee|

Both Common Mullein and the Western Honey Bee are introduced, non-native species yet I can't resist photographing them when given the opportunity.

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Messy Orange-crowned Warbler Plus Canada Thistles

By Mia McPherson|August 7th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Orange-crowned Warblers, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: adult, blooming, branch, Canada Thistle, canyon, Cirsium arvense, damp, down, Leiothlypis celata, Lettuce from hell thistle, looking, mountains, non-native, nonnative, Orange-crowned Warbler, perched, purple wildflowers, riparian habitat, summer, thistle, thistles, warbler, warblers, wildflowers, willow thicket, willows, wood-warblers|

My subject was actually a slightly messy Orange-crowned Warbler perched on a branch looking down at the ground.

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Blooming Common Mullein Images

By Mia McPherson|August 2nd, 2021|Categories: Hunt's Bumble Bees, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: bloom, blooming, Bombus huntii, bumble bee, bumble bees, canyon, Common Mullein, flight, flowering, flying, Hunt's Bumble Bee, mountains, mullein, mulliens, nectaring, non-native, nonnative, riparian habitat, summer, Verbascum thapsus, wildlflowers, yellow wildflowers|

Two days ago in between taking Willow Flycatcher photos in the Wasatch Mountains I took blooming Common Mullein images because they were nearby.

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Black Henbane – Noxious Weeds In Utah

By Mia McPherson|June 23rd, 2020|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: beer, Bilsen, Black Henbane, blooming, canyon, flowers, Germany, hog's-bean, Hyoscyamus niger, introduced, mountains, non-native, nonnative, noxious weed, Pilsen, stinking nightshade, toxic, wildflower|

This plant is Black Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) and is also known as Henbane, Hog’s-bean, and Stinking Nightshade and is native to the Mediterranean.

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Eurasian Collared-Doves

By Mia McPherson|November 15th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Eurasian Collared-Doves, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, alert, dove, doves, Eurasian Collared-Dove, farmland, fence, introduced, irrigation, non-native, pavement, perched, Streptopelia decaocto, water irrigation unit, wire fence|

When I first moved to Utah in 2009 I saw very few Eurasian Collared-Doves but now I see them in many locations and sometimes in large numbers.

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Small Flock Of Male Wild Turkeys With One Odd, Dark Tom

By Mia McPherson|October 20th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: alert, colorful, dark, food, introduced, male, Meleagris gallopavo, mountains, native, non-native, road, strutting, tom, turkey, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, very dark, walking, Wild Turkey|

Two days ago I spotted a Wild Turkey tom crossing a dirt road high up in the Stansbury Mountains and to my delight there were several more males following behind him.

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Pair of Cattle Egrets at Farmington Bay WMA Plus My Childhood Memories of These Birds

By Mia McPherson|October 11th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah, Western Cattle Egrets|Tags: Ardea ibis, autumn, cow, egret, egrets, flies, marsh, non-native, perched, riding, wading birds, walking, Western Cattle Egret|

The first time I remember seeing Cattle Egrets I was a child who had just moved to interior Florida, I think I was in the second grade at the time or about 7 to 8 years old and these white birds that followed cattle around seemed so fascinating and exotic to me.

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Trio of Young Raccoons at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

By Mia McPherson|September 29th, 2016|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Raccoons, Utah|Tags: autumn, cub, cubs, fall, immature, kits, marsh, non-native, Procyon lotor, Raccoon, roadside, wetlands, wildlife, young|

Yesterday I found a trio of young Raccoons at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and was able to take a series of images of them from inside my Jeep as they cautiously checked me out.

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Nanday Parakeets

By Mia McPherson|March 8th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Nanday Parakeets, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, barrier island, coastal, Nanday Parakeet, Nandayus nenday, non-native, parakeet, parakeets, sand spurs, sandspurs|

Any bird that eats those nasty sand spurs is a hero in my book and Nanday Parakeets are one of them.

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