Prairie Falcon – Bloody, Wet And Stuffed To The Gills Up close, closer than I wanted to be. Continue reading
A Pair Of Rufous Red-tailed Hawks And Their Kestrel Tormentor The only mated pair of rufous Red-tailed Hawks I’ve ever photographed. Continue reading
Female American Kestrel Looking Down Her Nose Sideways At Me And why do the catch lights in her eye look… unusual? Continue reading
An American Kestrel And Investigations Into The Cause Of My Recent Soft Images I may have discovered the culprit. Continue reading
My First Horned Lark Photos Of The Year Another in my irregular series on the ‘common’ species. Continue reading
Photo Contracts – The Devil Is In The Details Photographers and other artists definitely are NOT at the mercy of publishers and other consumers of their work. At least they don’t have to be. Continue reading
Yesterday’s Cooper’s Hawk Getting this close to a Cooper’s Hawk in a wild setting is a rare occurrence for me. Continue reading
A Vaccination And An Unexpected Result Of The Pandemic Occasionally on my blog I digress from birds and this is one of those times. Mostly. Continue reading
An Uncooperative Ferruginous Hawk Even when birds don’t cooperate something of value can come of an encounter like this one. Continue reading
One Of The More Unusual Canada Geese I’ve Photographed It pays to keep your eyes open, even amongst ‘common’ birds. Continue reading
Rough-legged Hawk On Rabbit Prey A wild hawk on wild prey in a natural setting so I like the primeval mood of the photo. Continue reading
Pied-billed Grebe Mystery Behavior I’ve spent hundreds of hours with Pied-billed Grebes over the years and this is one of the few times I’ve managed to document this fairly unusual behavior. Its purpose/function still eludes me. Continue reading
Northern Harriers – Aerial Dogfight Northern Harriers do a lot of play-fighting but this one looked pretty serious. Continue reading