wild – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Indigo Bunting Male At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|May 4th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Indigo Buntings, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, bunting, buntings, grape, grapevine, Indigo Bunting, male, Passerina cyanea, perched, singing, spring, wild|

This image shows a male Indigo Bunting singing on a wild grapevine in the morning. It was taken taken earlier this week at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge.

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Common Mergansers And Remote Controlled Harassment

By Mia McPherson|January 15th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Harassment, Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: adult, birds, bothering, close up, Common Merganser, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, flight, flying, harassment, harasssing, immature, male, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, park, pond, remote controlled boat, remote controlled speedboat, sliding, toy, urban, water, waterfowl, wild, winter, young|

I photographed these Common Mergansers at my local pond three years ago today. I will explain why I only had a few minutes with the mergansers at my local pond.

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Native Common Hops In The Wasatch Mountains

By Mia McPherson|September 6th, 2023|Categories: East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: bine, canyon, climbing, Common Hops, flowering vine, herbaceous, hops, Humulus lupulus, Humulus lupulus var. neomexicanus, leaves, mountains, native, perennial, summer, vine, wild|

On my last trip into the Wasatch Mountains, the first thing I photographed was Common Hops near a creek in East Canyon, Morgan County.

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My Shadow Plus The Wild Beauty of Bear River MBR

By Mia McPherson|February 3rd, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: beauty, frozen, ice, landscape, marsh, mountains, Promontory Mountains, scenery, shadow, sky, snow, snow-capped, snow-covered, water, wetlands, wild, winter|

Yesterday morning while it was still dark I bundled up and drove up to soak in the wild beauty of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. I am so glad that I went.

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Barn Owls on Antelope Island

By Mia McPherson|July 10th, 2011|Categories: American Barn Owls, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah|Tags: American Barn Owl, birds of prey, chicks, immature, juveniles, low light, noodle, not baited, owl, owls, perched, trailer, Tyto furcata, wild|

I really, really, really wish these young Barn Owls had been perched on something that looked more natural than old bent metal with droppings all over it

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