Male Common Goldeneye In Flight And Flaring To Land Goldeneyes in flight are a work in progress for me but I think I’m making some headway. Continue reading
A Peregrine Falcon And A Frozen Coot Yesterday morning went from bust to boom at the very last minute possible and it was a Peregrine Falcon that saved my bacon. Continue reading
American Kestrel With Vole Prey – The Rest Of The Story It’ll take 16 more images to tell the rest of the story that I started yesterday but I thought it was worth telling. Continue reading
Male American Kestrel – An Aborted Takeoff With Prey This may end up on my short list of favorite kestrel photos. Continue reading
The Little Things That Can Make Or Break Our Images Bird photography is largely a game of chance, particularly in action shots or when our subjects are in flight. Continue reading
A New Year’s Lesson From A Barn Owl Before we can photograph owls we have to find them and this wise ol’ Barn Owl taught me a valuable lesson in that regard. Continue reading
Canvasback Eating A Fish A behavior I’d never heard of, seen or photographed until last week. I believe this to be a story of adaptability and survival. Continue reading
A Clumsy Male American Kestrel Slippery frost on a perch can result in some interesting poses. Continue reading
My Best Photo(s) Yet Of A Grebe Amputating A Crayfish Claw I’ve photographed this feeding behavior before but those photos have never been this clear and detailed. Continue reading
A Trio Of Common Mergansers In Flight A six photo sequential series as three mergansers were about to land on the water. Continue reading
A Mallard And My Attempt At The Nearly Impossible Maybe this “impossible dream” can actually be achieved. If any of my readers have ever succeeded with this type of shot I’d enjoy hearing about it. Continue reading
A Well-equipped Fisherman And Another One… Not So Much Some fishermen have all the “right stuff” but for others there’s just something missing. Continue reading
Juvenile Burrowing Owls – The Clowns Of The Bird World These are some of my favorite Burrowing Owl photos of all time. Continue reading
Merlin In Warm Light (plus some falconry and family history) Maybe I have falconry blood in my veins and perhaps that’s part of my interest in raptors… Continue reading