immature/female – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Rufous Hummingbird Plus Smoky Rising Sun Photos

By Mia McPherson|September 1st, 2021|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Low light, Rufous Hummingbirds, Utah, western skies|Tags: bloom, blooming, Cleomella serrulata, desert island, eating, fall migration, feeding, flight, flying, haze, hovering, hummingbird, hummingbirds, immature/female, low light, morning, nectaring, pink wildflowers, rising, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, Rufous Hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, smoke, smoky, smoky haze, summer, sun, tail flare, wildfires, wildflowers|

Yesterday I went out to Antelope Island for the first time since April and I took hundreds of Rufous Hummingbird photos plus some of the rising sun.

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Winter Ruddy Duck Close To Home

By Mia McPherson|January 27th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Ruddy Ducks, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: blue bill, diving, diving ducks, duck, ducks, first winter, hint, immature/female, male, Oxyura jamaicensis, pond, Ruddy Duck, water, waterfowl, winter|

Two days ago I photographed a Ruddy Duck close to home at my local pond. I was only able to take 14 image of it before it dove under the water and swam away.

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Photographing Late Summer Nashville Warblers

By Mia McPherson|September 15th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Nashville Warblers, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, aphids, branch, branches, canyon, foraging, immature/female, leaves, Leiothlypis ruficapilla, male, migration, mountains, Nashville Warbler, pre-migration, warbler, warblers, willow, willows, wood-warblers|

I parked next to a stand of willows to see what birds would come in and it wasn't long before I was busy photographing Nashville Warblers foraging for aphids on the leaves of the trees.

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Yellow Warbler And A Hawthorn

By Mia McPherson|September 1st, 2020|Categories: Birds, East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: branch, canyon, Crataegus rivularis, creek, foraging, hawthorn, immature/female, mountains, perched, River Hawthorn, Setophaga petechia, summer, warbler, warblers, wood-warblers, Yellow Warbler|

These bright Yellow Warblers are getting ready for their long, fall migrations and while I am happy to see that they seem to have had a successful breeding season it also felt a touch bittersweet to me.

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The Funniest Yellow Warbler Photo I Have Ever Taken

By Mia McPherson|August 29th, 2020|Categories: Birds, East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Yellow Warblers|Tags: bill, branches, camera shake, canyon, foraged, funniest, funny, humor, immature/female, laughing, moth, moth eater, mountains, perched, River Hawthorn, Setophaga petechia, warbler, warblers, wood-warblers, Yellow Warbler|

Two days ago near a creek in the Wasatch Mountains I took the funniest Yellow Warbler photo I have ever taken in all the years that I have been photographing birds.

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