pose – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Young Downy Woodpecker Defensive Behavior

By Mia McPherson|August 13th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Downy Woodpeckers, Sebastian County|Tags: behavior, defensive, Downy Woodpecker, Dryobates pubescens, feeder, garden, immature, mode, perched, pose, summer, urban, vine, woodpecker, woodpeckers, yard, young|

Imagine you are a young Downy Woodpecker, just a couple of months old. You fly to a suet feeder to get food to eat and suddenly get hit by another woodpecker.

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My Lifer Dickcissel Photos At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|June 19th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Dickcissels, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, back view, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, branch, Cottonwood, Dickcissel, Dickcissels, male, mayfly, Oklahoma, perched, pose, pre-lift off, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Spiza americana, spring, tree|

The subject today is my lifer Dickcissel photos taken at Sequoyah NWR in Oklahoma. Huge thanks go to my friend Steve for putting me on this male.

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Carolina Chickadee In Pre-lift Off Pose

By Mia McPherson|June 15th, 2023|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Carolina Chickadees, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, Carolina Chickadee, chicadee, chickadee, driftwood, feeder, fluttering, lift off, perched, Poecile carolinensis, pose, spring, take off, urban, wings, yard|

I've photographed plenty of Black-capped Chickadees out west but it was about time to add a Carolina Chickadee gallery to my website. Now I have.

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Funny Least Chipmunk Butt Shot

By Mia McPherson|November 10th, 2022|Categories: Least Chipmunks, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildlife|Tags: adult, autumn, butt, butt shot, canyon, chipmunk, chipmunks, chokecherries, Chokecherry, fall, funny, Least Chipmunk, mountains, Neotamias minimus, pose, Prunus virginiana|

After nearly 16 hours of outages on my site in the past 24 hours I am not feeling very humorous but still thought I'd share this funny Least Chipmunk butt shot.

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Great Blue Heron Catching Fish At Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|August 22nd, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, behavior, carp, cattails, Emu, fish, flasher, flasher pose, flashing, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, imitation, marsh, nonbreeding plumage, portrait, pose, prey, stalking, summer, sunning pose, wading birds, wetlands|

On my last trip up to Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge I came across this Great Blue Heron and spent only one minute photographing the large wading bird.

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Immature Swainson’s Hawk In Changing Light

By Mia McPherson|September 9th, 2019|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Swainson's Hawks|Tags: Buteo swainsoni, Buteos, changing light, close up, eye on the sky, flight, gravel road, hatch year bird, hawks, Hawks of Montana, immature, ISO, lift off, lifting off, light morph, low light, pose, raptors, Swainson's Hawk, variable|

This photo session with an immature Swainson's Hawk reinforced how as a bird photographer I need to not only be keenly aware of changing light it also showed how I may need to quickly change my settings to get the photos I want.

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Immature White-crowned Sparrows Up In Box Elder County

By Mia McPherson|October 24th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, White-crowned Sparrows|Tags: branch, Common Mullein, immature, juvenile, perched, perky, pose, rabbitbrush, sage, sparrow, sparrows, White-crowned Sparrow, wild rose, Zonotrichia leucophrys|

I've been collecting images of immature White-crowned Sparrows that I have taken over the past month or so up in Box Elder County because of all the different settings I have photographed them in.

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