Feathered Photography

My First Of Year (FOY) Swainson’s Hawks Yesterday Morning

And Swainson’s Hawks weren’t my only first birds of the year yesterday. I had two others. (7 photos)

Northern Shoveler Flight Series

Including what I call a “peekaboo shot”. (3 photos)

Antelope Island Mockingbird

This is the time of year I start watching for Northern Mockingbirds on Antelope Island. A week ago today I found five of them and photographed two of them. (5 photos)

Meadowlark Stuff

Five days ago was a Western Meadowlark kind of day on Antelope Island. (7 photos)

Common Raven ‘Skip-launch’

A takeoff technique that has almost been patented by ravens. (8 photos)

White-faced Ibis On Landing Approach

With the Canon R5 I’m getting significantly more grab shots of birds in flight than I used to. (3 photos)

Burrowing Owl Blunder

After more than 15 years of photographing birds I’m still fine tuning my field ethics. (4 photos)

American Kestrel – “AOM” Is Still Thriving

I had a productive morning on Antelope Island yesterday, including seeing, hearing and/or photographing multiple bird species for the first time this year. (3 photos)

Black Necked Stilts – Mating Rituals And Copulation

This was my first observation of mating birds of any species this season. As you can imagine, it made my day. (16 photos)

Drake Northern Shoveler In Flight

It’s springtime so things are getting exciting at our bird refuges.