Some Different Strategies For Documenting Mockingbird Flight Displays (a type of courtship display) Strategies that should give the viewer a sense of the speed of the display and how high they fly. (8 photos and one video) Continue reading
Loggerhead Shrike Regurgitating A (sticky) Pellet Including an up-close look at the still wet and warm pellet. (7 photos) Continue reading
Beauty, Birds, Buddies And Bugs Yesterday On Antelope Island Including a video clip. (9 photos) Continue reading
My Attempt At Photographing Multiple (4) Northern Mockingbird Vertical Flight Displays A Vertical Flight Display is a courtship display of the male Northern Mockingbird. (14 photos) Continue reading
Northern Mockingbird Landing And A Surprise Gang Of Cuteness In my book, landing shots are at a premium because I like the postures they typically involve and because they’re so very hard to get (the old ‘degree of difficulty’ factor). (4 photos) Continue reading
Long-billed Curlew Takeoff And Flight Series The first nine photos below are sequential without any skips. After that there are skips and I’ll tell you where they are. (13 photos) Continue reading
Male Long-billed Curlew Taking Off One of two shorebird species I think of as “Cinderella birds”. Here’s why. (3 photos) Continue reading
Why (and how) Do Some Animals Poop Pellets? There has to be a reason, or reasons. (2 photos) Continue reading
A Coyote Exhibiting Self Awareness? I believe so but I’m not completely convinced. (9 photos) Continue reading
A Corvid In Flight And A Buteo With Prey And some incredibly cold temperatures. (3 photos) Continue reading
A Video Eulogy For A Salty Old Friend Watching it brings tears to my eyes and these old eyes don’t mist up easily. Continue reading
Two Coyotes Hunting And The Last Moments Of A Vole And attempting to break a very old habit. (5 photos) Continue reading