One Of My Best Looks At A Gray Catbird And my first look ever at a recently hatched Spotted Sandpiper chick. This little guy is cute as snot. Continue reading
Black-chinned Hummingbird Feeding On Bee Plant A different species this time, Black-chinned instead of the Broad-tailed Hummingbirds I’ve been posting lately. Continue reading
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
Hummingbird Takeoff Series Illustrating The Fickleness of Gorget Colors Plus some interesting information on the presumed functions of the gorget. Continue reading
Newly Fledged Yellow Warbler They don’t come much cuter than a freshly-fledged and hungry baby warbler. Continue reading
Just Part Of The Price Of Being A Turkey Vulture There are advantages but there’s also a price to pay for having a bald head. 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
House Wren Harrassed By A Hummingbird And Throwing A Pellet I’ve photographed a variety of songbirds, wading birds and raptors throwing pellets but yesterday was the first time I’ve been able to document a wren of any species exhibiting the behavior. 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
The Wilds Of Montana And Idaho, Here I Come! Plus a sunrise double rainbow that I’m interpreting as a good omen. 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