Magpie With A Praying Mantis Egg Case (and an ingenious food strategy) Yesterday morning I photographed a magpie with a new (for me) twist in its diet. Continue reading
The Injured Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk This is the injured young Swainson’s Hawk that I’ve mentioned in previous posts. Continue reading
Back-To-Back American Kestrels – Male And Female With Prey I got relatively close to two kestrels, a male and a female, both with prey, within four minutes. Miracles do happen… Continue reading
Red-tailed Hawks Fighting Amongst The Wires Skirmishing raptors are always fun to photograph, even when there are wires in the way. Continue reading
Barbed Wire Barn Owl Released Back Into The Wild (with photos) Yesterday was the long-awaited day. Continue reading
Western Grebe And Three Chicks – No Room On The Taxi When Western Grebe chicks get large enough, back brooding all the siblings becomes problematic. Continue reading
A Couple Of My Nemesis Birds – Belted Kingfisher and Sora For me a “nemesis bird” is a species I haven’t been able to get any (or very few) decent photos of. Recently I had some luck with two of them in that category. Continue reading
Juvenile and Adult Swainson’s Hawks – A Feeding Session Things got a little frenzied when one of the adult Swainson’s Hawks would bring a vole in to feed their juvenile offspring. Continue reading
A Western Sandpiper, Shutter Speeds And Another Quirk Of Reflections Here’s another reason I like to use relatively fast shutter speeds when photographing birds.. Continue reading
Least Sandpiper – Dang, They’re Tiny! In fact the Least Sandpiper is the smallest shorebird in the world. Continue reading