Behaviors – Page 75 – Feathered Photography

A Clark’s Grebe Behavior I Can Only Guess At

I think I know what’s going on here but I don’t know exactly how it’s done.

Cedar Waxwings In The Wasatch Mountains

I don’t get opportunities with waxwings of either species very often.

Short-eared Owl Siblings Parallaxing (and an update on the owl hung up on barbed wire)

Normally it’s my practice to avoid posting the same species two days in a row. But in celebration of the (unexpected) good news about the juvenile Short-eared Owl we rescued from barbed wire two days ago I decided to make an exception. After all, I think we all prefer our owls happy and acting normally rather than hanging from barbed wire and in despair.

Another Nasty Encounter Between An Owl And A Barbed Wire Fence

Many readers will remember the Barn Owl I had to cut out of barbed wire last summer in Montana. At the time I only had a small, cheap and dull pair of wire cutters with me and the effort required to cut the thick double-stranded wire strained tendons in my arm that took several weeks to heal. So I invested in two new heavy-duty pairs of wire cutters to carry in my pickup in case I ever came across a similar situation again. It’s a darn good thing I did.

A Raptor, Ducks In Flight And A Lifer From Montana’s Centennial Valley

Usually my blog focuses on a single species but today’s post is a bit of a potpourri.

Red-tailed Hawk With A Snake

Red-tailed Hawks are known to prey on snakes but it’s something I’ve not seen often and I’d never documented it well.

Northern Flickers With A Little Competition For The Nest Cavity

Relative size apparently makes no difference when birds are competing for nesting cavities. In this case the Northern Flickers are twelve times larger than the house wren (130 g vs 11 g).