snowflakes – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Red-breasted And White-breasted Nuthatch Photos

By Mia McPherson|December 9th, 2023|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Salt Lake County, Sebastian County, Utah, White-breasted Nuthatches|Tags: adult, feeder, low light, nuthatch, nuthatches, perched, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, Sitta carolinensis, snow, snowflakes, snowy, summer, urban, White-breasted Nuthatch, winter, yard|

I'm sharing a Red-breasted Nuthatch photo taken in my yard in Utah, plus a White-breasted Nuthatch image taken in Steve Creek's yard in Arkansas this morning.

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December Snow Storm Plus An American Coot

By Mia McPherson|December 13th, 2022|Categories: American Coots, Birds, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake Valley, Utah|Tags: adult, American Coot, autumn, coots, fall, Fulica americana, pond, rushes, Salt Lake Valley, snow, snow storm, snowflakes, snowstorm, snowy, trees, urban, water|

Yesterday, after I cleared the snow off of my Jeep for the first time, I drove down to my neighborhood pond in a December snow storm to enjoy the snow.

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Winter Has Arrived Along With Many Opportunities To Photograph Birds

By Mia McPherson|November 9th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Common Goldeneyes, Hooded Mergansers, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Bucephala clangula, close up, Common Goldeneye, diving duck, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, evening light, flight, fly by, flying, goldeneye, goldeneyes, gull, gulls, Hooded Merganser, Larus delawarensis, Lophodytes cucullatus, male, merganser, mergansers, pond, portrait, Ring-billed Gull, snow, snow storm, snowflakes, snowstorm, sunset, waterfowl, winter|

When the weather turns colder, the clouds gather, and the snow falls I still have plenty of birds to photograph here in northern Utah.

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Double-crested Cormorant In A Snow Storm

By Mia McPherson|March 14th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Double-crested Cormorants, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, cormorant, cormorants, Double-crested Cormorant, flight, Nannopterum auritus, snow, snow storm, snowflakes|

One of the birds that caught my attention at my local pond yesterday during the snow storm was an adult Double-crested Cormorant flying in front of a willow tree with lots of snowflakes in the frame.

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Portrait Of A Winter Ring-billed Gull With Snow On Its Bill

By Mia McPherson|December 8th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Gulls, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: close up, gull, gulls, Larus delawarensis, open bill, portrait, Ring-billed Gull, snow, snowflakes, urban, winter|

I'm not sure how this Ring-bill Gull got the snow on its bill but when I looked through my viewfinder I liked all of fine details I had in the snow, the bill and the white plumage of the gull and I felt I had to take photos of it.

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Portrait of a Dark-eyed Junco in a Snow Storm

By Mia McPherson|February 24th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Dark-eyed Juncos, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: Dark-eyed Junco, junco, Junco hyemalis, juncos, male, Oregon group, portrait, snow, snow storm, snowflakes, sparrow, sparrows|

As the snow from the storm fell I noticed some of the Dark-eyed Juncos feeding on the ground and I was able to photograph this junco's portrait as it hid behind a mound of snow.

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Head On Ring-billed Gull Portrait In A Snow Storm

By Mia McPherson|January 20th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: close up, gull, gulls, head on, Larus delawarensis, portrait, Ring-billed Gull, snow, snow storm, snowflakes, winter|

This portrait of a head on Ring-billed Gull in a snow storm was taken 364 days ago at a local pond near home and I liked it because the gull looks a touch grumpy.

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Portraits of Ring-billed Gulls in a Snow Storm

By Mia McPherson|January 31st, 2017|Categories: Birds, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: close up, gulls, Larus delawarensis, portrait, Ring-billed Gull, snow, snow storm, snowflakes, winter|

I'm glad I took these portraits of Ring-billed Gulls in a snow storm, they will remind me of a gray, cold, stormy January day when I was just crazy enough to sit and photograph birds as snowflakes fell from the sky.

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Gulls, Ducks and Geese in a Snow Storm

By Mia McPherson|January 22nd, 2017|Categories: Birds, California Gulls, Canada Geese, Common Goldeneyes, Mallards, Redheads, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: Anas platyrhynchos, Aythya americana, Branta canadensis, Bucephala clangula, California Gull, Canada Geese, Common Goldeneye, Larus californicus, Larus delawarensis, Mallard, Redhead, Ring-billed Gull, snow flakes, snow storm, snowflakes, snowy, snowy day|

I spent about 40 minutes photographing the gulls, ducks and geese in the snow storm here in northern Utah yesterday and had a lot of fun doing it.

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Portraits of a Black-billed Magpie in a Snowstorm

By Mia McPherson|January 31st, 2016|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Black-billed Magpies, Davis County, Utah|Tags: adult, Black-billed Magpie, close up, high key, low light, magpie, magpies, Pica hudsonia, portrait, snow, snowflakes, snowstorm, snowy, whiteout, winter|

The first bird I raised my lens for yesterday was this Black-billed Magpie in a snowstorm near the visitor center.

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