Birds are always my focus but I enjoy photographing critters of all types. Early this month I spent a week camping near the Continental Divide between Montana and Idaho and during that time I was able to photograph a variety of mammals, large and small.
To get extraordinary images it helps immensely to be inspired by knowing what is possible if you just keep trying.
Red-tailed Hawks are known to prey on snakes but it’s something I’ve not seen often and I’d never documented it well.
I continue to make the occasional rookie mistake when photographing birds in the field but this time I still like the results.
I’m uncomfortable tootin’ my own horn but I promised readers that I’d provide more details about who published this image when the book came out.
It isn’t often that I can stay locked on to a bird in flight for this many images after takeoff.
Relative size apparently makes no difference when birds are competing for nesting cavities. In this case the Northern Flickers are twelve times larger than the house wren (130 g vs 11 g).
Photographing fighting tree swallows in very low light is an exercise in frustration.
Technically this is an Idaho owl but I found it yesterday morning only about a mile from the Montana border.
