Eared Grebe – An Unusual Feeding Behavior And a Pied-billed Grebe with kleptoparasitic tendencies. Continue reading
Female Belted Kingfisher With A Weather Loach In Her Bill And evidence of the extreme violence she directed at the poor fish. Continue reading
Male American Kestrel Getting Some Tail When you’re a small falcon trying to survive in the wild you can’t be too picky about what you’re willing to eat. Continue reading
Williamson’s Sapsuckers Performing Their Endless Domestic Duties For this species raising chicks is an unusually exhausting job. Continue reading
Red-naped Sapsuckers – Dietary Preferences And Breaking Bad Habits When I’m in the field photographing birds I have to constantly remind myself to avoid making assumptions. Continue reading
Mealworms – Are They Safe As Bird Food? This is what happens when false and misleading information is widely distributed amongst the bird-loving community. Or any community for that matter. Continue reading
Young Loggerhead Shrike Practicing His Prey-impaling Skills A fascinating behavior that humans seldom see. I’ve only observed it twice. Continue reading
Badger Preying On Some Of Its Close Relatives – Long-tailed Weasels Serious conflict between some of the largest and smallest of the mustelids. Continue reading
Naturally Spotlit Short-eared Owl In Flight With Prey A pleasant surprise hidden deep in my photo files. Continue reading
Spotted Towhee Making A Living In Harsh Conditions Loading up on food before the storm. Continue reading
A Couple Of Merlins, A Sunset And A Significant Snowstorm – Finally Landscape photos aren’t standard fare from me but I had to include this one. Continue reading
The Towhee Twostep When it’s done in snow the results of the ‘towhee twostep’ can be pretty spectacular. Continue reading
Spotted Towhee At The Beginning Of Yesterday’s Snowstorm Damn tough shooting conditions but I found a bunch of birds in an unexpected place. Continue reading
Prairie Falcon – Bloody, Wet And Stuffed To The Gills Up close, closer than I wanted to be. Continue reading