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Immature Swainson’s Hawk In Changing Light

By Mia McPherson|September 9th, 2019|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Swainson's Hawks|Tags: Buteo swainsoni, Buteos, changing light, close up, eye on the sky, flight, gravel road, hatch year bird, hawks, Hawks of Montana, immature, ISO, lift off, lifting off, light morph, low light, pose, raptors, Swainson's Hawk, variable|

This photo session with an immature Swainson's Hawk reinforced how as a bird photographer I need to not only be keenly aware of changing light it also showed how I may need to quickly change my settings to get the photos I want.

Song Sparrow In Box Elder County, Utah – Bird Sounds of Spring

By Mia McPherson|April 2nd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Song Sparrows, Utah|Tags: abundant, back view, barb wire, barbed wire, calls, Melospiza melodia, perched, side view, Song Sparrow, songs, sounds, sparrow, sparrows, spring, subspecies, variable|

I was trying to photograph some Red-tailed Hawks when I heard a song close to me and realized it was a Song Sparrow before I even located the bird and put my lens on it.