My Tolerance For The ‘Hand Of Man’ In My Photos Has Limits
As Illustrated by four recent photos of three different birds of two different species.
Tag: Stansbury mountains
Mountain Chickadee Extracting A Seed From A Cone
Ferruginous Hawk With Penetrating Eye Contact
There’s just something about direct eye contact from the largest and most powerful hawk in North America. Ferruginous Hawks are thought of as wannabe Golden Eagles for very good reason.
Wild Turkey Takeoff And Flight Series
The setting for this series, photographed yesterday morning in the mountains, is cluttered with branches and twigs but that’s part of the point of this post.
Wild Turkey – An Iridescent Tom
When the light hits Wild Turkeys just right their colors can be downright impressive.
Red-breasted Nuthatch Hanging Upside Down From A Conifer Cone
A Meadowlark Puffball In The Snow
Lark Sparrow At Takeoff…
and one reason bird photographers need to be both quick and lucky. I’m only including this first image to help me make my point.
Ferruginous Hawk Perched, Taking Off And In Flight
This largest of the North American buteos put on quite a show for me as it lifted off in beautiful light with dark mountains in the background.
Loggerhead Shrikes Snagging Robber Flies Out Of The Air
Watching juvenile Loggerhead Shrikes learning to hunt insects on the fly can be pretty entertaining.
Loggerhead Shrikes And The Curse Of The Teleconverter
I love my 1.4 teleconverter but it sure is painful when I make the wrong decision about using it.
Western Bluebirds – Male And Female
A Merriam’s Wild Turkey And Thoughts Of Family At Thanksgiving
Two subspecies of Wild Turkey are found in Utah, Merriam’s Turkey and the Rio Grande Turkey. They’re very similar in appearance and are best distinguished by their distinctive habitat requirements.
Green-tailed Towhees Singing On Territory
We don’t see many quality photos of Green-tailed Towhees, for which there’s a very good reason.
My Four (and a half) “Lifers” In Eight Days
At this point in my photography “career” it’s unusual for me to get a new lifer but lately I’ve been on a roll.