American Avocet Chick At Bear River MBR At this age avocet chicks are fluffy-butt cuties. Continue reading
A Western Grebe, A Chick And A Feather Grebes eat feathers. Lots of feathers. In fact grebes are the only birds known to regularly and deliberately eat their own feathers. Continue reading
Two More Red-tailed Hawk Chicks Have Fledged With the tough times raptors and other birds are going through these days two more successfully fledged Red-tailed Hawks is good news indeed. Continue reading
Newly Fledged Yellow Warbler They don’t come much cuter than a freshly-fledged and hungry baby warbler. Continue reading
Short-eared Owl In Flight With Prey Being Chased By Another Owl A double dose of serendipity with the two related events being separated from each other by eight years. To the day. Continue reading
Western Tanager With A Bug The tanagers often manipulated their insect prey in their bills for quite a while before gulping it down and I wondered why Continue reading
Yellow Warbler Foraging And Singing Enthusiastically This is why I always have my smaller zoom lens with me in my pickup. Continue reading
Western Grebe Trickery – Turnabout Is Fair Play Personally I think the male of this pair got exactly what he deserved. Tit for tat. Continue reading
The Dramatic Size Difference Between Parasitic Cowbirds And Their Host Species The difference in size isn’t always this extreme but it can be even more dramatic than some of the examples I’ve included here. Continue reading
Yesterday I Had A Two Merlin Morning At Bear River MBR On average I photograph Merlins less often than once per year so to get two of them in my viewfinder on the same morning was a momentous occasion. Continue reading
Yellow Warbler Singing After the unpleasantness of yesterday’s blog post I needed something fresh and cheerful to get the bad taste out of my mouth. For me a singing warbler will do it every time. Continue reading
Male Northern Harrier Trying To Flush A Vole From The Grass When it comes to catching an uncooperative meal, whatever works. Continue reading
Female Hooded Merganser With A Weather Loach A sudden wind gust can sure raise havoc with the results of a recent trip to the beauty salon. Continue reading
Northern Harrier In Flight At Farmington Farmington Bay WMA has been a madhouse lately. Continue reading