range – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Wintry Wasatch Mountain Peaks

By Mia McPherson|January 11th, 2024|Categories: Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: cloudy, cloudy sky, gray, mountain, mountains, peaks, range, slopes, snow, snow covered, snowy, trees, Wasatch Mountains, winter, wintry|

Yesterday afternoon, I drove down to my local pond, hoping that I could see the snowy Wasatch Mountain peaks through the clouds. This was about the best view I got.

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Spotting A Short-eared Owl In The Distance

By Mia McPherson|April 4th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Short-eared Owls, Utah|Tags: adult, Asio flammeus, birds of prey, bush, field, male, owl, owls, Owls of Utah, perched, range, Short-eared Owl, spring|

What caught my attention was this adult male Short-eared Owl perched on a bush way out in the distance in the middle of a rancher's field.

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A Cook’s Memorial? Odd Things I Find While Looking For Birds

By Mia McPherson|January 19th, 2021|Categories: Miscellaneous, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: bows, cooks memorial, Curlycup Gumweed, desert, grasses, Grindelia squarrosa, memorial, odd things, pottery shards, range, roadside oddities, rocks, seashells, winter, wooden spoons|

As best as I can figure out what is in this photo is a cook's memorial that I found 7 years ago today out on a range in Utah's West Desert.

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Sub-adult Swainson’s Hawk in Northern Utah

By Mia McPherson|October 29th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Swainson's Hawks, Utah|Tags: back, birds of prey, Buteo swainsoni, Buteos, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, looking, perched, pole, range, raptors, rusty, sub-adult, Swainson's Hawk|

By this time of the year Swainson's Hawks have left Utah and headed towards South America to their wintering grounds but the memories I have of the hawks never leave me.

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I Spotted My First of Season Common Merganser

By Mia McPherson|November 24th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, blue, Common Merganser, diving ducks, duck, ducks, fall, female, first of season, hen, icy, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, pond, range, sea ducks, urban, water, waterfowl|

While at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge two days ago I spotted my first of the season Common Merganser from the auto tour route.

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