pasture – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Bald Eagle On A Leaning Post Plus Trees With The Earth Shadow And Belt Of Venus

By Mia McPherson|January 31st, 2024|Categories: Bald Eagles, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: adult, Bald Eagle, Belt of Venus, birds of prey, eagle, eagles, earth shadow, grasses, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, leaning, majestic, marsh, pasture, perched, post, raptors, regal, scenery, sky, trees, wetlands, winter|

While I was up at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge yesterday, I photographed a Bald Eagle on a leaning post, plus trees with the Earth Shadow and Belt of Venus.

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Kamas Valley Killdeer

By Mia McPherson|August 23rd, 2023|Categories: Birds, Kamas Valley, Killdeer, Summit County, Utah|Tags: adult, Charadrius vociferus, clover, cow poop, crap, grass, grasses, Killdeer, killdeers, manure, mountain valley, pasture, pink clover, pink clovers, plover, plovers, ranchlands, shorebirds, summer, valley, wet meadow|

Last week, in the Kamas Valley in Summit County, Utah I was pleased to take Killdeer photos in a wet meadow with pink clovers and piles of cow manure.

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Kamas Valley Western Meadowlark With A Grasshopper

By Mia McPherson|August 21st, 2023|Categories: Birds, Kamas Valley, Summit County, Utah, Western Meadowlarks|Tags: adult, fencepost, grasshopper, meadowlark, meadowlarks, molt, pasture, ranchlands, scruffy, Sturnella neglecta, summer, valley, Western Meadowlark, wet meadow|

The first bird I photographed last week from the side of the road in the Kamas Valley was this scruffy Western Meadowlark with a grasshopper.

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Least Sandpiper In Kamas Valley

By Mia McPherson|August 20th, 2023|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Kamas Valley, Least Sandpipers, Summit County, Utah|Tags: Calidris minutilla, grass, grasses, identification, Least Sandpiper, manure, migrating, migration, pasture, peeps, ranchlands, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, summer, wet meadow|

The most surprising and wonderful bird I saw and photographed on Thursday with my friend, April Olson, was a migrating Least Sandpiper in the Kamas Valley.

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Kamas Valley Sandhill Crane Photos

By Mia McPherson|August 18th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Kamas Valley, Sandhill Cranes, Summit County, Utah|Tags: adult, crane, cranes, field, foraging, Gateway to the Uintas, grass, grasses, grassy, mottled, pasture, pre-migration, ranchlands, Sandhill Crane, summer|

Yesterday, on the way to the Uinta Mountains, April Olson and I looked for birds in the Kamas Valley. That's where I took these Sandhill Crane photos.

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Sandhill Crane Portraits

By Mia McPherson|August 24th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Sandhill Cranes, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Antigone canadensis, canyon, close up, crane, cranes, female, grass, grasses, male, mountains, pasture, portrait, Sandhill Crane, summer|

While up in the mountains yesterday morning I was thrilled to take a series of female and male Sandhill Crane portraits as they fed in a pasture next to the road.

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Solitary Sandhill Crane Foraging In A Pasture

By Mia McPherson|July 14th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Sandhill Cranes, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Antigone canadensis, canyon, crane, cranes, eating, foraging, grass, grasses, lone, mountains, pasture, Sandhill Crane, solitary, stained, summer|

I took this adult Sandhill Crane photo earlier this week as the crane foraged for food in a grassy horse pasture high up in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Adult Savannah Sparrow in Summit County

By Mia McPherson|June 10th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Savannah Sparrows, Summit County, Utah|Tags: adult, farmlands, fence post, Passerculus sandwichensis, pasture, perched, ranchlands, Savannah Sparrow, sparrow, sparrows, spring, valley, wooden post|

Earlier this week I photographed this adult Savannah Sparrow just outside the town of Kamas, Utah before heading up into the Uinta Mountains.

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Red Fox in a Wasatch Mountain Canyon

By Mia McPherson|September 1st, 2018|Categories: Morgan County, Red Foxes, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, fox, foxes, grasses, meadow, mountain meadow, pasture, Red Fox, stare, tall grasses, Vulpes vulpes|

Yesterday I was surprised to find a Red Fox in a Wasatch Mountain Canyon, it is only my second time seeing a fox in that canyon and the last time wasn't that long ago.

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Nomadic Short-eared Owls

By Mia McPherson|February 26th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Short-eared Owls, Utah|Tags: adult, Asio flammeus, birds of prey, chick, desert, female, immature, juvenile, male, morning light, owl, owls, pasture, ranchlands, road side, Short-eared Owl, side lit, spring, young|

Short-eared Owls are nomadic because they follow their main prey which is voles and if the vole population is low the Short-eared Owl density will also be low.

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