water droplets – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Fall Red-breasted Nuthatch Images From Arkansas

By Mia McPherson|October 22nd, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, Arkansas, autumn, bird bath, birdbath, fall, garden, landing, lifting off, nuthatch, nuthatches, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sebastian County, Sitta canadensis, suburban, taking off, water, water droplets, yard|

A little over a week ago I said I was hopeful about taking Red-breasted Nuthatch photos in Arkansas. I have and these photos are from yesterday at the birdbath!

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Tufted Titmouse, Birdbath, Water Droplets, And A Yellowjacket

By Mia McPherson|October 12th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Sebastian County, Tufted Titmouses|Tags: adult, autumn, avoiding, Baeolophus bicolor, bird bath, birdbath, fall, garden, suburban, titmice, titmouse, titmouses, Tufted Titmouse, water droplets, yard, yellow jacket, yellowjacket|

Today I'm sharing two images of an adult Tufted Titmouse, taken yesterday while the titmouse was at the birdbath, enjoying a nice cool drink of water.

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Fungi And Dew Laden Grass Photo

By Mia McPherson|September 6th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Fungi and Lichens, Miscellaneous, Sebastian County|Tags: Arkansas, dew, fungi, garden, grass, grasses, Sebastian County, summer, toadstool, toadstools, water droplets, yard|

I couldn't resist photographing this fungi yesterday morning. I had noticed it beginning to grow out of the soil the night before. My camera was ready at dawn.

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Tufted Titmouse Video Plus A Bonus Photo

By Mia McPherson|September 3rd, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Sebastian County, Tufted Titmouses|Tags: Baeolophus bicolor, bathing, bird bath, birdbath, garden, spring, titmice, titmouse, titmouses, Tufted Titmouse, urban, water, water droplets, yard|

Today I am sharing a Tufted Titmouse video that I created early yesterday morning, showing the bird working hard to get a sunflower seed out of its shell.

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Coyote Pup Portrait From Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|July 21st, 2024|Categories: Coyotes, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Video|Tags: bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, Canis latrans, close up, Coyote, coyotes, grasses, mammals, portrait, pup, side light, sidelit, summer, video, water droplets, young|

Some days are pure magic. Two days ago, at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma, this Coyote pup made the day as magical as it could be and more.

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Gray Treefrog On A Lotus Leaf

By Mia McPherson|July 15th, 2024|Categories: Gray Treefrogs, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, American Lotus, aquatic wildflower, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, Complex Hyla versicolor, frog, frogs, Gray Treefrog, Gray Treefrog Species Complex, Hyla versicolor, leaf, Nelumbo lutea, Reeves Slough, slough, summer, tree frog, tree frogs, treefrog, treefrogs, water droplets, white wildflower, yellow wildflower|

This morning I am sharing a simple photo of an adult Gray Treefrog on a lotus leaf taken at Sequoyah NWR. Or is it so simple? Maybe it is more complex.

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Bathing Pied-billed Grebe Photo

By Mia McPherson|January 21st, 2024|Categories: Birds, Pied-billed Grebes, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, bath, bathing, grebe, grebes, park, Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, pond, shaking, urban, water, water droplets, waterbirds, winter|

This morning, I'm sharing a simple bathing Pied-billed Grebe photo that I took four years ago. I like this grebe image because of all the flying water droplets.

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Halloween 2023 – The Web We Weave

By Mia McPherson|October 31st, 2023|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Miscellaneous, Pinellas County|Tags: fog, foggy, forest, Halloween, Mom, spider web, water droplets|

Tonight, across the country, ghouls, goblins, super heroes, cartoon characters, vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghosts, and witches will be ringing door bells asking for treats.

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Bathing Canvasback Hen And The Story Behind The Images

By Mia McPherson|January 25th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Canvasbacks, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, April Olson, Aythya valisineria, bathing, Canvasback, diving ducks, duck, ducks, feathers, female, hen, pond, reflections, rehab, rehabilitated, release, Salt Lake County, shaking, urban, Utah, water, water droplets, Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah, winter, WRCNU|

When I photographed this bathing Canvasback hen three days ago at a pond close to home I was really happy to see her doing well and doing what ducks do.

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Christmas Day Birds 2021

By Mia McPherson|December 26th, 2021|Categories: American Coots, Birds, California Gulls, Common Goldeneyes, Great Blue Herons, Great-tailed Grackles, Mallards, Rough-legged Hawks|Tags: adult, American Coot, Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea herodias, breeding plumage, Bucephala clangula, Buteo lagopus, California Gull, calling, Christmas, Christmas Day, close up, Common Goldeneye, coot, coots, crawdad, crayfish, dabbling ducks, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, eating, female, first winter, flight, flying, foraging, Fulica americana, goldeneye, goldeneyes, grackle, grackles, grass, gray sky, Great Blue Heron, Great-tailed Grackle, gull, gulls, hawk, hawks, heron, herons, hovering, Icterids, immature, Larus californicus, low light, male, Mallard, mallards, marsh, nonbreeding plumage, open bill, pond, portrait, Quiscalus mexicanus, rails, Rough-legged Hawk, splashing, urban, wading birds, water, water droplets, wetlands, winter, young|

I did get out to find and photograph birds on Christmas Day at Farmington Bay WMA and then later in the morning I found more closer to home.

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Bluebells, Currants, Warblers And A Duck

By Mia McPherson|May 15th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Mallards, Morgan County, Shrubs, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers, Yellow Warblers|Tags: adult, alpine, Anas platyrhynchos, bath, bathing, beaver damage, bloom, blooming, blossoms, blue wildflowers, branch, branches, canyon, creek, creekside, currant, currants, dabbling ducks, drake, duck, ducks, female, flowering, flowers, fork, Golden Currant, male, Mallard, mallards, Mertensia ciliata, Mountain Bluebells, mountains, perched, pink wildflowers, purple wildflowers, Ribes aureum, riparian zone, Setophaga petechia, shrub, singing, spring, stump, tapestry, warbler, warblers, water, water droplets, wildflowers, Yellow Warbler, yellow wildflowers|

I spent my morning up in the Wasatch Mountains yesterday and came home with photos of bluebells, currants, warblers, and a duck.

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Bathing Adult Pied-billed Grebe Splashing Water

By Mia McPherson|January 22nd, 2020|Categories: Birds, Pied-billed Grebes, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, bath, bathing, breeding plumage, grebe, grebes, head, Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, pond, shaking, urban, water, water droplets, winter|

The Pied-billed Grebe dunked its head then slapped its wings against the water vigorously which caused the icy water to fly in all directions.

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Royal Tern Splashing And Bathing In A Florida Lagoon

By Mia McPherson|March 15th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Royal Terns|Tags: adult, bathing, breeding plumage, coastal, lagoon, Royal Tern, splashing, tern, terns, Thalasseus maximus, water, water droplets|

This image of a splashing and bathing Royal Tern in a Florida lagoon was taken nearly ten years ago and I'd never processed it until today.

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Preening Western Grebe At Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

By Mia McPherson|March 4th, 2019|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Western Grebes|Tags: adult, Aechmophorus occidentalis, grebe, grebes, marsh, preening, reflection, water, water droplets, Western Grebe, wetlands|

Migrating Western Grebes are already being reported at Utah Lake, Bountiful Pond and Farmington Bay WMA and before too long they will be found at other locations here in northern Utah.

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Double-crested Cormorant After Surfacing

By Mia McPherson|November 27th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Double-crested Cormorants, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: cormorant, cormorants, Double-crested Cormorant, Nannopterum auritus, pond, surfacing, urban, water, water droplets, waterbirds, winter|

Last December there were several Double-crested Cormorants hanging around my local pond here in northern Utah and I had a great time photographing them.

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Killdeer – Wash, Fluff and Dry

By Mia McPherson|May 2nd, 2012|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Killdeer, Utah|Tags: adult, bath, bathing, behavior, Charadrius vociferus, fluffed up, Killdeer, marsh, plover, plovers, preening, puddle, shorebirds, splashing, spring, water, water droplets, wetlands|

Last week I photographed a Killdeer bathing at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area in Davis County, Utah.

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