Red-tailed Hawk In Flight – A Compositional Conundrum This may turn out to be one of my favorite Red-tailed Hawk flight shots but I’m undecided about its composition. Continue reading
American Avocet Sexual Behaviors American Avocets may have the most complex and reliably choreographed sexual behaviors of any bird species I photograph. Continue reading
Rufous Red-tailed Hawk Stretching And Casting A Pellet Plus a little excitement with a young cow struggling to give birth. Continue reading
A Couple Of Recent Magpie Photos, Just Because I Like Them Both are of Black-billed Magpies taking off but I think they’re quite different from each other. Continue reading
A Red-tailed Hawk’s Response To An Incoming Golden Eagle Needless to say she wasn’t happy about the intrusion. Continue reading
Male Red-tailed Hawk In A Downward Takeoff Plus a confusing and elusive optical illusion involving the hawk. Continue reading
Black-billed Magpie – A Short Flight Series I rarely post photos of the same species two days in a row but yesterday I spent more time with magpies and I like these two images well enough to make an exception. More than well enough, actually. Continue reading
It’s Nest-building Time For Black-billed Magpies Magpies are usually my first nest building subjects in springtime and this year they didn’t disappoint. Continue reading
Western Meadowlark Singing And Stretching Three days ago I spent the morning on Antelope Island and for the first time this year I noticed a significant increase in bird presence and activity. Continue reading
Mrs. Red-tailed Hawk Meets Mr. Murphy Fourteen photos of this spectacularly beautiful hawk perched, taking off and in flight. But yesterday Mr. Murphy showed up. Continue reading
Sandhill Cranes And A Chukar From Yesterday Morning Birds are finally starting to pick up on Antelope Island. Continue reading
Male Mountain Bluebird In Flight (plus a lesson in sharpness) This is one of those shots where I’m glad the entire bird isn’t sharp. Continue reading
A Visit From Shannon For me few things take precedence over birds but a visit from my daughter Shannon is one of them. There’ll be no birds today. Continue reading