poking – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Great-tailed Grackle Photos After a Spring Snowstorm

By Mia McPherson|April 9th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Great-tailed Grackles, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, bill, close up, displaying, grackle, grackles, Great-tailed Grackle, male, mound, park, poking, portrait, Quiscalus mexicanus, Salt Lake County, snow, snowy, spring, trudging, unique, urban, Utah|

Taking Great-tailed Grackle photos after our recent spring snowstorm was fun. I had never seen photos of this species in the snow before I took these.

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Male Yellow Warbler In A Serviceberry

By Mia McPherson|August 26th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: adult, Amelanchier utahensis, branch, canyon, forest edge, leaves, male, Morgan County, mountains, poking, serviceberries, serviceberry, Setophaga petechia, summer, Utah, Utah Serviceberry, warbler, warblers, Wasatch Mountains, wood-warbler, wood-warblers, Yellow Warbler|

As I took these Yellow Warbler photos earlier this week in the mountains I realized that my time with these bright birds is coming to an end for the season.

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Wasatch Mountain Range Sandhill Crane Images

By Mia McPherson|August 1st, 2022|Categories: Birds, Sandhill Cranes, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, alert, Antigone canadensis, canyon, crane, cranes, creek, food, foraging, mountains, mud, poking, riparian habitat, Sandhill Crane, sedges, stained, summer, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|

Yesterday morning I spent ten minutes taking Sandhill Crane images high in the Wasatch Mountain Range after finding a pair of cranes next to an alpine creek.

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Female Black-chinned Hummingbird With Honeysuckle

By Mia McPherson|May 19th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Black Twinberry Honeysuckle, Black-chinned Hummingbirds, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Archilochus alexandri, Black Twinberry, Black twinberry honeysuckle, Black-chinned Hummingbird, canyon, female, flight, flower bud, flying, honeysuckle, honeysuckles, hovering, hummingbird, hummingbirds, Lonicera involucrata, mountains, perched, poking, riparian habitat, spring, wildflowers|

When I spotted this tiny female Black-chinned Hummingbird yesterday high in the Wasatch Mountains I hoped she'd begin to feed on some nearby honeysuckle.

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House Wrens – Nesting Behavior

By Mia McPherson|June 4th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Clark County, House Wrens, Idaho, Targhee National Forest|Tags: adult, aspen, branch, break, cavity nesters, chattering, head, House Wren, nesting, nesting behavior, nesting cavity, nesting material, nesting tree, perched, poking, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, secondary cavity nesters, singing, stump, Troglodytes aedon, wren, wrens|

For a few days now I said I was going to do a post about the House Wrens I photographed at the same nesting tree as the Williamson's Sapsuckers, here it is.

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