skirmish – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Winter Weather And Low Light Bird Photography Ahead

By Mia McPherson|November 29th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Low light, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah, weather|Tags: crawdad, crayfish, flight, flying, food fight, gull, gulls, Larus delawarensis, low light, Ring-billed Gull, skirmish, snow, snow storm, snowstorm, water, winter, winter weather|

I actually like photographing birds in a snow storm because the low light situations test my skills, the limits of my gear and the resulting photos often have a moody feeling to them.

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Ring-billed Gulls Flying in a December Snow Storm

By Mia McPherson|December 17th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: chase, crayfish, flight, flying, gull, gulls, Larus delawarensis, pond, Ring-billed Gull, skirmish, snow, snow storm, urban, winter|

The light wasn't great when I photographed these Ring-billed Gulls flying in a December snow storm but I had a great time with the gulls and the rest of the birds.

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Clark’s Grebe and Ring-billed Gull Skirmish – The Clark’s Grebe Wins

By Mia McPherson|October 23rd, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark's Grebes, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Ring-billed Gulls, Utah|Tags: Aechmophorus clarkii, birds, Clark's Grebe, grebe, grebes, gull, gulls, kleptoparasitizing, Larus delawarensis, Ring-billed Gull, skirmish|

I spent a few hours at Farmington Bay WMA yesterday and was able to witness a very brief skirmish between a Clark's Grebe that had a fish in its bill and a Ring-billed Gull that tried to steal the fish.

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Two Second Skirmish on a Greater Sage-Grouse Lek

By Mia McPherson|April 10th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Greater Sage-Grouse, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, bitter, breeding behavior, Centrocercus urophasianus, cold, courtship display, dance, displaying, eons, fight, Greater Sage-Grouse, grouse, lek, sage-grouse, skirmish, spring, timeless, upland terestrial bird, upland terrestrial birds|

The two second Greater Sage-Grouse skirmish was over but only for a few seconds before these two males started back up again.

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