Feathered Photography

Smoke Morph Wild Turkey

I’ve only seen two smoke morph Wild Turkeys ever. The first one was over thirty years ago. The second was yesterday.

Meet The Mated Pair Of Red-tailed Hawks, Together This Time

In two of my recent posts readers met the male and female individually but in this series we see them interacting as a pair, including mating..

Sage Thrasher In A Flight Posture I Adore

I thought I might never capture this flight posture in a songbird during my entire career as a bird photographer. For me it’s only happened a single time and it very likely won’t happen again.

Red-tailed Hawk Takeoff From Nest Series

Red-tailed Hawk nesting season is officially here.

Sage Grouse, Beer Cans And Intrepid Bird Champions

I always thought beer cans were single use containers. Silly me.

Red-tailed Hawk Takeoff And Flight From A Cliff

A series of three photos taken yesterday, subtitled “Me and My Shadow”.

Black-billed Magpie Landing With Nesting Material

Another twig for the nest, delivered via airmail.

An Image Request And A Rerun

Barbed wire is called “devil rope” for good reason.

Some Recent Birds (and a critter)

Eight photos, eight species.

Cooper’s Hawk Stretching

And some thoughts about rotating our images to level during processing when we have conflicting leveling cues.