trash – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Patterns In Ice And Human Nature?

By Mia McPherson|December 27th, 2022|Categories: Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: awful, Christmas Eve, cup, garbage, ice, patterns, people, pollution, pond, trash, urban, water, winter|

These swirly patterns in ice caught my eye because of the light and golden reflections from the vegetation on the shoreline of a neighborhood pond.

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Gray Catbird Adult Finding Food For Its Young

By Mia McPherson|July 28th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Gray Catbirds, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: branch, calling, canyon, catbird, catbirds, creek, dragonfly larvae, dragonlyfly nymph, Dumetella carolinensis, garbage, Gray Catbird, mimids, mountains, perched, pot, prey, riparian habitat, spider, summer, trash, willow, willows|

Bird activity in the Wasatch Mountains has gotten slow but I was able to find and photograph an adult Gray Catbird with food for its young two days ago.

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Smoke Phase Wild Turkey Hen Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 3rd, 2020|Categories: Birds, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wild Turkeys|Tags: adult, female, footprints, forest, garbage, grasses, hen, junipers, Meleagris gallopavo, morphs, mountains, mutations, Pack it in, pack it out, plumage variation, recessive genes, smoke phase, smokey phase, smoky-gray phase, snow, soda can, spring, trash, turkey, turkeys, upland terrestrial birds, Wild Turkey|

Someone at sometime had tossed a soda can into the junipers and the Wild Turkey hen walked right in front of it during the few seconds she was out in the open.

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Please Take Nothing But Pictures Leave Nothing But Footprints

By Mia McPherson|July 3rd, 2014|Categories: Birds, Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Ospreys|Tags: adult, footprints, garbage, littered, Osprey, pack in, pack out, Pandion haliaetus, Pinellas County, pollute, trash|

The Fourth of July is just a day away and soon many campgrounds, parks and beaches will be filled with people celebrating and sadly leaving trash behind.

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Ever Been Mobbed by Loggerhead Shrike juveniles?

By Mia McPherson|July 17th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Loggerhead Shrikes, Utah|Tags: close up, fledgling, immature, juvenile, Lanius ludovicianus, plastic, portraits, shrike, shrikes, summer, trash, young|

Yes, I was mobbed by Loggerhead Shrikes and I didn't mind a bit because it afforded me the opportunity to observe and photograph them up close and it was fascinating!

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