fledgling – Page 5 – Feathered Photography

A Motorcycle-riding Great Horned Owl Fledgling

I feel more sentimental about this image than any other bird photo I’ve ever taken, hands down.

Fledgling Short Eared Owl Siblings

For most folks very young owls have oodles of appeal and for me fledgling Short-eared Owls are at the top of the list.

Our Western Kingbirds Are Back

One of the birds whose return I most look forward to in the spring is the Western Kingbird.

Young Short-eared Owl Experimenting With Its Eyesight?

It’s often a fool’s errand to assign motivation to unexplained bird behaviors so in this case I won’t make any claims. But I have to wonder if this young owl might have been experimenting with its eyesight.

Meet Galileo

Yesterday I was reacquainted with an old feathered friend.

Juvenile Western Meadowlark In Flight (compared to an adult)

The differences between juvenile and adult Western Meadowlarks often go unrecognized by observers in the field but when you see them up close through a lens those differences become striking.

A Resurgence Of Short-eared Owls In The West?

In my experience Short-eared Owls have been few and far between in several western states for the entire nine years I’ve been photographing birds. Not so this year!

Wilson’s Phalarope Chick (and a frustrating equipment malfunction)

Like most days in the field yesterday had its ups and downs. I was excited to photograph a phalarope chick but a glitch with my primary camera really threw me for a loop.

Short-eared Owl – An Image Can Be Cropped Deceptively

Creative cropping of an image can sometimes have more negative effects than positive ones.

Another Nasty Encounter Between An Owl And A Barbed Wire Fence

Many readers will remember the Barn Owl I had to cut out of barbed wire last summer in Montana. At the time I only had a small, cheap and dull pair of wire cutters with me and the effort required to cut the thick double-stranded wire strained tendons in my arm that took several weeks to heal. So I invested in two new heavy-duty pairs of wire cutters to carry in my pickup in case I ever came across a similar situation again. It’s a darn good thing I did.