The First Bird I Photographed In 2021 Was A Big Surprise And Late In Coming In 2021 I didn’t photograph my first bird of the year until January 9 but that particular bird was (mostly) worth the wait. Continue reading
Diving Male Kingfisher With A Colorful Background Beats the heck out of a mass of twigs or plain old sky back there. Continue reading
Banded Adult Female Rough-Legged Hawk I don’t recall photographing a banded Roughie before. Continue reading
A Female Kestrel With An Intense Interest In Me Sometimes I like a photo with significant flaws more than I thought I would. Continue reading
Adult Male Rough-legged Hawk Flight Series A ten image flight series. And the loss of a giant in the birding world. Continue reading
Avian Potpourri From My Last Trip To Bear River MBR Including a bird whose ID I’m not quite sure of. Continue reading
Some Christmas Memories My chance to wish a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday Season to all of my readers. And to express some of what the season means to me at this stage in my life. Continue reading
A Pair Of Ruddy Ducks In An Interesting Setting For me the colors and varying textures of the water in this photo are almost as interesting as the birds. Continue reading
Adult Rough-legged Hawk In Full Flight Yesterday morning the fog was threatening but it mostly stayed away. Continue reading
The New ABA Bird Of The Year – The Burrowing Owl As of two days ago the Burrowing Owl is the American Birding Association’s Bird of the Year for 2022. (5 photos) Continue reading
The One Disadvantage Of Photographing Birds In Early Morning Around here you only have to worry about it in winter. (4 photos) Continue reading
Prairie Falcon Trying To Carry A Richardson’s Ground Squirrel In Flight A classic case of biting off more than you can chew. Continue reading