rose hips – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

I’m Just Mad About Sparrows

By Mia McPherson|September 8th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Brewer's Sparrows, Lincoln's Sparrows, Savannah Sparrows, Utah, Vesper Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrows|Tags: adult, branches, Brewer's Sparrow, desert, Fragrant Sumac, immature, juvenile, Lincoln's Sparrow, Melospiza lincolnii, Passerculus sandwichensis, Poocetes gramineus, Rhus aromatica, rose hips, roses, Savannah Sparrow, sky, smoky, sparrow, sparrows, Spizella breweri, sumac, Vesper Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, wild roses, young, Zonotrichia leucophrys|

I had a great time photographing all of the sparrow species I saw two days ago and I could have stayed with them all morning long. I might do just that later this week.

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Pine Siskin And Rose Hips In Autumn

By Mia McPherson|November 7th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Pine Siskins, Utah|Tags: autumn, Carduelis pinus, declining population, nimadic, Pine Siskin, rose bush, rose hips, siskin, siskins, wild rose|

Pine Siskins are year round residents in Utah but that doesn't mean I get to see them as often as I would like because they are nomadic by nature.

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Autumn American Goldfinch and Rose Hips

By Mia McPherson|November 23rd, 2018|Categories: American Goldfinches, Birds, Box Elder County, Finches and Allies, Utah|Tags: adult, American Goldfinch, autumn, desert, fall, finch, finches, goldfinch, goldfinches, nonbreeding plumage, perched, rose, rose hips, Spinus tristis, wild rose, winter plumage|

Earlier this week I left home well before the sun came up, sat on my rear end for over five hours, traveled over 230 miles and the only decent image I took was of this American Goldfinch perched on a wild rose surrounded by scarlet rose hips.

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Nonbreeding Chipping Sparrow on a Wild Rose

By Mia McPherson|October 1st, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Chipping Sparrows, Utah|Tags: Chipping Sparrow, desert, nonbreeding plumage, perched, rose, rose hips, sparrow, sparrows, Spizella passerina, wild rose|

I photographed this nonbreeding Chipping Sparrow the last week of September as it perched briefly on a wild rose, I love the pop of color the rose hips provided.

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Fall Vesper Sparrow Perched On A Wild Rose Bush

By Mia McPherson|September 24th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Vesper Sparrows|Tags: adult, autumn, desert, fall, perched, Poocetes gramineus, rose, rose hips, sparrow, sparrows, Vesper Sparrow, wild rose|

Yesterday I saw a single Vesper Sparrow which came in and perched out in the open on a lovely Wild Rose that was full of rose hips in nice light. What is not to like about that?

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Sage Thrashers, Northern Mockingbird, White-crowned Sparrow and Wild Rose Hips

By Mia McPherson|September 22nd, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Northern Mockingbirds, Sage Thrashers, Utah, White-crowned Sparrows|Tags: fruit, mimids, Mimus polyglottos, mockingbird, mockingbirds, Northern Mockingbird, Oreoscoptes montanus, pit, rose hips, Sage Thrasher, sparrow, sparrows, thrasher, thrashers, White-crowned Sparrow, wild rose, Zonotrichia leucophrys|

The birds I photographed on the wild rose bushes were adult and immature Sage Thrashers, an adult White-crowned Sparrow and one beautiful Northern Mockingbird.

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White-crowned Sparrow and Rose hips

By Mia McPherson|November 10th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah, White-crowned Sparrows|Tags: adult, perched, rose hips, sparrows, White-crowned Sparrow, wild rose, Zonotrichia leucophrys|

A few days ago I photographed this adult White-crowned Sparrow perched on a wild rose bush that is absolutely covered in red rose hips at Farmington Bay WMA.

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Wild Rose hips and an immature White-crowned Sparrow

By Mia McPherson|November 24th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah, White-crowned Sparrows|Tags: autumn, fall, immature, juvenile, marsh, rose hips, sparrow, sparrows, wetlands, White-crowned Sparrow, wild rose, young, Zonotrichia leucophrys|

I was happy yesterday to take this image of an immature White-crowned Sparrow perched with wild rose hips in the frame too.

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