Geese: Canada And Snow Getting photos I like at my local pond isn’t easy – not because of a lack of birds but because there’s often too many. Continue reading
My Most Thrilling Prairie Falcon Encounter (and continuing story) Ever It was an incredible experience for me to actually learn the life history of a Prairie Falcon I’d photographed in the wilds of southwest Montana., Continue reading
American Coot – The Schoolyard Bully The apparent intent of this thug was to intimidate and terrorize the other coot. It worked. Continue reading
A Handsome Coot? And I’ll be damned. I think I’d even call this coot handsome. Or at least stately and dignified and that doesn’t happen every day with this species. Continue reading
Peregrine Falcon Coming At Me This part of my encounter with the falcon gave me a feeling for how a doomed duck must feel an instant before it meets its violent demise. Continue reading
Avian Potpourri – Three Species, Five Images A duck, a hawk and a heron. Typical of potpourri there’s not much of a unifying theme here except each of my subjects has feathers in common and all five images illustrate something of interest (for me at least). Continue reading
Male Common Goldeneye In Flight And Flaring To Land Goldeneyes in flight are a work in progress for me but I think I’m making some headway. Continue reading
A Peregrine Falcon And A Frozen Coot Yesterday morning went from bust to boom at the very last minute possible and it was a Peregrine Falcon that saved my bacon. Continue reading
American Kestrel With Vole Prey – The Rest Of The Story It’ll take 16 more images to tell the rest of the story that I started yesterday but I thought it was worth telling. Continue reading
Male American Kestrel – An Aborted Takeoff With Prey This may end up on my short list of favorite kestrel photos. Continue reading