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
Female Belted Kingfisher On A Perch That Has Grown On Me Two years ago I’d have given my shutter finger for a shot like this. Continue reading
Juvenile Golden Eagle In Flight This is one of the better views I have of the field marks of a juvenile Golden Eagle in flight. 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
Meet Jack, HawkWatch International’s New Merlin Yesterday I visited with old friends at HawkWatch International and met their new education bird, a flashy little male Merlin. Continue reading
A Lesser Scaup and More Coot Chases From Yesterday Plus a national embarrassment for Utah. Continue reading
Western Grebe Feeding A Feather To A Fledgling Plus a rare landscape/waterscape image from me. Continue reading
A Montana Merlin And Some News From HawkWatch International I’m quite excited about this news from HWI. Continue reading
Golden Eagle In Flight Against A Mountainside I was amazed when this photo turned out as well as it did in such low light. Continue reading
Male Western Kingbird Rushing To Meet An Intruder A glimmer of springtime before a winter blizzard. Continue reading
Coot Chase During a coot chase I can seldom see both birds in my photos. In this series I can. The following five images are presented in the order they were taken with no skips. Continue reading
Barn Swallow Feeding A Fledgling On The Wing Photographing swallows in flight is one of the more difficult tasks I attempt as a bird photographer. Continue reading
Male Sage Grouse Strutting Their Stuff On The Lek I’ve seldom been this cold in my entire life but my time on the lek was absolutely worth the extreme discomfort. Continue reading