sideways – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Western Meadowlark Amusement

By Mia McPherson|November 2nd, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Western Meadowlarks|Tags: autumn, back view, fall, feathers, flipped, frontal view, head on, head turn, meadowlark, meadowlarks, old lake bottom, perched, profile view, puffed up, ranchlands, roadside, scrunched down, side view, sideways, sky, squatting, Sturnella neglecta, Western Meadowlark, wooden post|

Photographing this Western Meadowlark on Monday on my way back to I-15 from Bear River MBR was so much fun for me that it probably ought to be illegal.

Female Yellow Warbler Foraging In A Hawthorn Tree

By Mia McPherson|May 14th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: bill, branches, budding, canyon, Crataegus rivularis, female, first of season, foraging, hawthorn, leafing out, leaves, mountains, perched, prey, River Hawthorn, Setophaga petechia, sideways, spring, tree, warbler, warblers, wood-warblers, Yellow Warbler|

Eight days ago I photographed my first male Yellow Warbler of the year and two days ago I had some luck with my first females of the season.

Black-billed Magpie On The Wing – Sideways

By Mia McPherson|March 5th, 2018|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Black-billed Magpies, Davis County, Utah|Tags: adult, Black-billed Magpie, corvids, flight, flying, Greasewood, Great Salt Lake, head on, magpie, magpies, on the wing, Pica hudsonia, sideways|

This Black-billed Magpie had been perched on the top of a leafless greasewood when it lifted off from it and flew almost directly towards me with its body and wings turned sideways in flight.