oaks – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Tishomingo Wildlife Management Unit Views Plus A Sunbathing Turkey Vulture

By Mia McPherson|May 19th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Oklahoma, Tishomingo Wildlife Management Unit, Turkey Vultures|Tags: adult, beams, Bobcat Lake, Cathartes aura, lake, landscape, leaves, McAdams Pond, morning, oak, oaks, Rattlesnake River Access, Reeve's Ravine, reflections, river, road, scenery, sky, spring, sunlight, sunning, thermoregulating, tree, trees, Turkey Vulture, vulture, vultures, water, Whiskey Creek Lake|

I wandered around Tishomingo Wildlife Management Unit yesterday morning. It was gorgeous and peaceful! I know I will go back to explore it again soon.

Young Western Tanager in the Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|September 2nd, 2022|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Western Tanagers|Tags: forest edge, Gambel Oak, immature, oaks, perched, Piranga ludoviciana, Poecile gambeli, summer, tanager, tanagers, tree, Western Tanager, young|

Yesterday morning I found this young Western Tanager in the Wasatch Mountains after it came out of a Gambel Oak tree to perch out into the open.

Fall Colors In The Wasatch Mountains Plus A Male Dusky Grouse

By Mia McPherson|September 28th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Dusky Grouse, Sky Line Drive, Bountiful Canyon, Trees, Uinta Wasatch Cache National Forest, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: aspens, autumn, autumn colors, Bountiful Peak, changing seasons, conifers, Dendragapus obscurus, Dusky Grouse, fall, fall colors, Francis Peak, Gambel Oak, grouse, male, mountains, oaks, Quaking Aspen, road, upland terrestrial birds|

This morning is cloudy and gray but seven years ago today it was bright, the air was crisp and the fall colors of the Front Range of the Wasatch Mountains were in their full glory.