stink-eye – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

House Sparrow Photos

By Mia McPherson|May 28th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, House Sparrows, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, bluebird, calling, driftwood, garden, House Sparrow, looking up, male, nest box, Passer domesticus, perched, sky, sparrow, sparrows, spring, stink-eye, urban, vine, yard|

I am sharing a few House Sparrow photos that were taken while I was staying with my dear friend, Steve Creek, in Arkansas. The photos were taken from his deck.

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American Coot Stink Eye And Diving Images

By Mia McPherson|November 9th, 2023|Categories: American Coots, Birds, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Coot, autumn, coot, coots, diving, fall, Fulica americana, park, pond, Salt Lake County, stink-eye, stinkeye, urban, Utah, water, waterbirds|

Today I am sharing some recent American Coot images where the coot is giving me the stink eye and diving. The images were taken at a pond close to home.

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My 2022 Year In Review

By Mia McPherson|December 31st, 2022|Categories: American Kestrels, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Black-billed Magpies, Box Elder County, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, Horned Grebes, Morgan County, Ring-billed Gulls, Rock Wrens, Ruffed Grouse, Tundra Swans, Utah, Warbling Vireos, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: adult, Amelanchier utahensis, American Kestrel, Aquila chrysaetos, autumn, background, berries, Bewick's Swan, bill, birds of prey, Black-billed Magpie, blooming, blooms, blossoms, Bonasa umbellus, boulder, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Bubo virginianus, building, canyon, close up, corvids, Cygnus columbianus, Cygnus columbianus bewickii, Davis County, desert, dirt, eagle, eagles, Falco sparverius, falcon, falcons, fall, farmlands, female, fledgling, flight, flock, flowering, flowering shrub, flying, forest edge, fruiting shrub, fruits, fruting shrubs, Golden Eagle, gorget, Great Horned Owl, grebe, grebes, grouse, gull, gulls, Horned Grebe, hummingbird, hummingbirds, immature, juvenile, kestrel, kestrels, Larus delawarensis, lichen, lores, magpie, magpies, male, marsh, mountains, nest, nest box, nesting, nonbreeding plumage, owl, owls, perched, Pica hudsonia, Podiceps auritus, raptors, rare, reflection, Ring-billed Gull, riparian habitat, road, roadside, rock, Rock Wren, rocks, Ruffed Grouse, Salpinctes obsoletus, Selasphorus platycercus, serviceberries, serviceberry, Setophaga petechia, shrub, spring, stink-eye, summer, swan, swans, thicket, tree, Tundra Swans, Utah, Utah Serviceberry, vagrant, warbler, warblers, water, waterbirds, waterfowl, wetlands, willow, willow thicket, willows, winter, winter plumage, wood-warbler, wood-warblers, wren, wrens, Yellow Warbler, young|

On this last day of the year it is time for my annual 2022 Year in Review post. In some ways 2022 has been great for me and in others not so good.

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February Tundra Swan Photos Plus Some Very Early Sandhill Cranes

By Mia McPherson|February 11th, 2022|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Sandhill Cranes, Tundra Swans, Utah|Tags: adult, alert, Antigone canadensis, crane, cranes, Cygnus columbianus, early, ice, marsh, resting, road, Sandhill Crane, snow, snow covered, stink-eye, swan, swans, Tundra Swan, walking, wary, waterfowl, wetlands, winter|

Late last month I mentioned that I hadn't yet gotten the Tundra Swan photos that I wanted to take. Yesterday at Bear River MBR I was delighted to remedy that situation.

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Swainson’s Hawks Heading Our Way

By Mia McPherson|February 28th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Swainson's Hawks, Utah|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo swainsoni, fence post, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, light morph, perched, raptors, stink-eye, Swainson's Hawk|

These two Swainson's Hawk photos were taken in May of last year up in northern Utah from inside a vehicle being used as a mobile blind and both were photographed from the side of a road where they had become accustomed to traffic going by so they weren't skittish at all.

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Portraits of Bison Bulls Drinking From An Iced Over Puddle

By Mia McPherson|February 17th, 2017|Categories: American Bison, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: adult, American Bison, Bison bison, Bison bull, bulls, close up, crazy-eyed, desert island, drinking, frost, ice, male, portrait, puddle, stink-eye, winter, winter coats|

These portraits of bison bulls drinking from an iced over puddle were taken with my Nikon D500, my 500mm VR lens with a teleconverter attached from inside a vehicle.

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