A Shy Prairie Falcon Playing Hide And Seek I rarely like photos of birds that include utility pole perches. But I like this one because of the cute behavior. (2 photos) Continue reading
My FOY (first of year) Rough-legged Hawk And two additional ‘firsts’, all yesterday morning. All three of them came within a time span of 14 minutes. (4 photos) Continue reading
Prairie Falcon Becoming Progressively More Tolerant Of My Presence I rarely photograph raptors on utility poles anymore but I’ll always make an exception for Prairie Falcons. Especially when they allow me to observe some of their behaviors up close. (7 photos) Continue reading
A Trio Of Interesting Birds From My Recent Trip To Box Elder County Including my first Bald Eagle of this migration season. (5 photos) Continue reading
The Best Looks At The Talons Of A Wild Prairie Falcon I’ve Ever Had Showing feathery and bloody evidence of the work talons are cut out to do. (2 photos) Continue reading
Prairie Falcon Trying To Carry A Richardson’s Ground Squirrel In Flight A classic case of biting off more than you can chew. Continue reading
Lamenting The Disappearing Great Salt Lake And Its Effect On Our Falcons Especially Peregrine Falcons and Prairie Falcons but other falcons too. Continue reading
Prairie Falcon – Bloody, Wet And Stuffed To The Gills Up close, closer than I wanted to be. Continue reading
A Spotlit Prairie Falcon At Sunrise A lighting effect I almost never get on a raptor. Or any other bird for that matter. Continue reading
Prairie Falcon Struggling With Large Prey A Northern Shoveler is unusually large prey for a Prairie Falcon but this young female pulled off the kill in spectacular fashion. Continue reading
Food For Thought, And For Raptors An attempt to quantify the beneficial effects of raptors in rodent control. Gimme some numbers please! Continue reading