Snakes As Prey For Red-tailed Hawks Red-tailed Hawks are known to prey on snakes and they don’t necessarily exclude the venomous species as menu choices. Continue reading
Red-tailed Hawks And Wild Turkeys Yesterday In Tooele County I’ve been monitoring a Red-tailed Hawk nest in the mountains of Tooele County for at least 7 years now. It isn’t close to the road and I never approach it on foot to avoid disturbing the hawks but I have a good view of it through my long lens. Continue reading
Male Marsh Wren Building One Of His Dummy Nests Two days ago I spent an hour and 45 minutes photographing a male Marsh Wren building one of his “dummy” nests at Bear River MBR. Continue reading
Western Grebe Running On Water Using A Technique I’d Never Seen Once in a great while an image with a fatal flaw still tickles my fancy. Continue reading
Magpies Working On Their Nest A week ago today Black-billed Magpies were diligent about their nest-building. Continue reading
Fighting Male Short-eared Owls Photographing these owls fighting over territory was the chance of a lifetime for me. Continue reading
Displaying Sage Thrasher Plus a past due explanation for why readers may have noticed a recent unfortunate trend on Feathered Photography. Continue reading
Sibling Red-tailed Hawk Fledglings In Different Curiosity Poses At this tender age they’re curious about everything. Continue reading
Male Sandhill Crane Talking To His Lady In Flight And he was quite insistent about whatever he was trying to tell her (I have my suspicions about what it was). Continue reading
The Magpie Image That Broke My Heart Yesterday A photo like this one inspires me because it shows me what’s possible but that doesn’t take the pain away when I screw it up. Continue reading
Magpie Takeoff With An Assist It wasn’t much of an assist but just the fact that the magpie could/would do it for so little gain amazed me. Continue reading
A New Way To Report Banded American Kestrels Now that much of the preliminary work for this project has been done HawkWatch International needs eyes. Lots of eyes. Continue reading
It Must Be Spring – Magpies Are Building Nests In Northern Utah In my area Black-billed Magpies are among our earliest nesters. Continue reading
A Lesser Scaup and More Coot Chases From Yesterday Plus a national embarrassment for Utah. Continue reading