The ‘True’ Eyelids Of A Swainson’s Hawk Since the eyelids of birds aren’t used in blinking we don’t get to see them very often. Continue reading
A Few Recent Birds And An Outlier Seven species of birds and the almost obligatory butterfly this time of year. Continue reading
Yesterday’s Surprise Osprey A surprise because it was fishing a small meandering stream instead of one of several nearby large bodies of water. Continue reading
Red-tailed Hawk Running The Gauntlet More evidence that raptors can be incredibly agile and quick when they need to be. Continue reading
Red-tailed Hawk With A Food Delivery For Her Chicks I seldom get such a good look at raptor prey. Continue reading
A Much Better Look At One Of The Red-tailed Hawk Chicks And a food exchange between their parents. Continue reading
Three Red-tailed Hawk Chicks Posing Perfectly In The Nest ‘Posing perfectly’ and raptor chicks almost never go together but this time was an exception. Continue reading
Some Recent Birds And Things A cross section of some of the subjects I’ll aim my lens at while I’m in the field. With varying degrees of success. Continue reading
Yesterday’s Cooperative (at the last second) Peregrine Falcon Once in a great while in bird photography things go unexpectedly right instead of unexpectedly wrong. Continue reading
Are You Ready To Ditch The Name “Cooper’s Hawk” And Call It Something Else? No fewer than 149 North American bird species named after people may soon acquire new names. The Cooper’s Hawk is only one of them. Continue reading
Adult Red-tailed Hawk Takeoff And Flight Yet another hawk looking pretty beat-up from molt, this one from two days ago. Continue reading
Swainson’s Hawk Nestled In Sagebrush Yesterday morning I finally found a few cooperative Swainson’s Hawks. Continue reading