A Fruit-eating Yellow Warbler Yellow Warblers are known to eat insects and spiders almost exclusively. This one didn’t get the message. Continue reading
Water Management And Phragmites Control Issues At Bear River MBR Yesterday I had a meeting with the new manager of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge regarding questions and concerns I had about recent management decisions affecting the refuge. Here’s what I found out. Continue reading
Warbling Vireo In The Willows Plus a challenge for wannabe bird photographers. How fast are your reflexes? Continue reading
A Flight Shot, A Takeoff And A Squabble From Yesterday Morning Cedar Waxwings and a Pine Siskin. Sort of a mixed bag today. Continue reading
Cedar Waxwing In Flight – A Work In Progress Live and learn is what they say but on this occasion a brain fart led to my downfall. I should have known better. Continue reading
Sage Thrasher And Rose Hips – What Is A “Perfect” Shot? This first photo is about as close to a “perfect” shot as I ever get. Continue reading
A Possible Yellow Warbler Strategy For Feeding On Aphids It’s only a working theory but I believe it’s based on fairly strong circumstantial evidence. Continue reading
Black-headed Grosbeak In Flight Sometimes a dreadfully inadequate photo can be a treasure as inspiration. For me this image fits that description but prepare yourself, it’s a mess. Continue reading
Willow Flycatcher? – Another Compositional Conundrum A double conundrum, actually – composition and ID. Continue reading
American Goldfinch on Musk Thistle And an interesting goldfinch strategy for combating brood parasitism of the Brown-headed Cowbird. Continue reading
A Hiatus From Birds… Shannon’s Here! For me few things supersede birds and my blogging but a visit from my daughter Shannon is one of them so this will likely be a short post. Continue reading