Turkey Vulture Trying Hard To Cast A Pellet Casting a pellet can be hard work, especially for large birds like vultures. (7 photos) Continue reading
Say’s Phoebes Reacting To A Gopher Snake In A Small Cave They weren’t happy about that snake. (6 photos) Continue reading
A Small Songbird ‘Counting Coup’ On An Adult Red-tailed Hawk In the tradition of the Plains Indians. (3 photos) Continue reading
Black-crowned Night Heron – A Mystery Diet I like to know what the birds I’m photographing are eating. Sometimes I can ID it and sometimes I can’t. (7 photos) Continue reading
The Differences Between Horns And Antlers Today’s post was inspired by a conversation I overheard recently on Antelope Island. (7 photos) Continue reading
American Avocet Chick At Bear River MBR Chicks of two species close together cause pandemonium in the wetlands. (3 photos) Continue reading
A Cinnamon Teal Behavior I’d Never Seen Before At least not up close. And maybe never. (8 photos) Continue reading
Tiny Wilson’s Phalarope Chicks In 16 years of photographing birds I’d only seen a Wilson’s Phalarope chick once and that guy was half-grown. Three days ago at Bear River MBR I photographed phalarope chicks that were much younger. (9 photos) Continue reading
Bathing Wilson’s Phalarope Yesterday morning at Bear River MBR I had several ‘firsts’ with Wilson’s Phalaropes. Bathing was one of them. (3 photos) Continue reading
My New Contraptions For Saving My Tomatoes In A Hailstorm I call them my ‘mater-savers. (8 photos) Continue reading