great salt lake – Page 2 – Feathered Photography

A Loggerhead Shrike And Wild Rose Hips

A splash of color for a less than colorful bird and background.

A Squadron Of White-faced Ibises Flying Low Over The Great Salt Lake

Groups of birds in flight are hard to photograph well but I like the way this one turned out.

Coyote Lying Down And Then Resting On The Shore At Sunrise

Even mundane moments like this one can be pretty special when a wild animal allows us such an intimate look into their world.

Eared Grebe – An Unusual Feeding Behavior

And a Pied-billed Grebe with kleptoparasitic tendencies.

Wilson’s Phalaropes Along The Antelope Island Causeway

Yet another bird that takes advantage of the Great Salt Lake’s brine flies and brine shrimp as a food source and they do so in huge numbers.

Coyote At Sunrise

I have a soft spot for coyotes that goes all the way back to my time growing up on the Montana farm.

Prairie Falcon Trying To Drag Heavy Prey

Dragging her next meal over all the bumpy obstacles was almost too much for the struggling falcon.

I realize that out of fear or revulsion (or both) some folks won’t even look at photos of spiders but I hope most of my readers aren’t in that category. I think spiders are marvels of evolution and many of them are actually beautiful in their own way.

American White Pelican Takeoff

American White Pelicans are a species I should train my lens on more often. While they’re sitting on the water they often don’t make a very interesting subject but getting that huge 16 lb. body airborne is a real struggle so photos of them taking off have much more interest for many of us.