A Huge Win For A Persistent Osprey Pair Not only do the good guys win occasionally but this time there were more of the good guys than I originally thought there were. Continue reading
Western Grebe With A Fish In Gorgeous Water For me the water reflections in this image almost steal the show from both the grebe and the fish. Continue reading
Side-lit Barn Owl In Flight A weakness in an image can often be mitigated by a strength. Continue reading
Loggerhead Shrike, With An Alternate Perspective On The Setting Super-telephoto lenses can do a great job on the bird but they often leave the viewer clueless about habitat. Continue reading
Juvenile Golden Eagle In Flight I encountered this eagle two weeks ago in the Promontory Mountains of northern Utah. Continue reading
A Mostly Monotone Meadowlark I almost deleted this image on my first culling pass because I thought it lacked pizzazz. Continue reading
Red-tailed Hawk Takeoff Series, By Request I was delighted to get so many sharp shots of this Red-tailed Hawk during and after takeoff. Continue reading
Ol’ Bloody-beak Going After More Prey I never saw this Burrowing Owl with prey but he always seemed to have a bloody beak and he was usually hungry for more. Continue reading
Red-tailed Hawk Takeoff From Atop A Cliff By now readers must know how much I like this particular takeoff posture in raptors. For me images like this are full of tension and energy and my mind’s eye wanders as I try to imagine the details of what happened next. Continue reading
Went Looking For Kingfishers, Found Butterbutts Instead Normally I’m not fond of cutesy little names for birds but this one fits the species so very well it just keeps popping into my head when I see them. Continue reading
Bathing Western Meadowlark – Curtain Call And no, the “curtain call” reference isn’t for reasons of modesty… Continue reading
Clumsy Young Prairie Falcon In Low Light It’s rare for a Prairie Falcon to allow a close approach but this young bird was an exception. Continue reading
Good News For Some Of The Raptors In My World Two days ago I received very welcome news on several fronts in an email from HawkWatch International (HWI) Trustee Mike Shaw. Continue reading
Adult Red-tailed Hawk In Full Flight Think about it. In a very high percentage of raptor flight shots the bird has either just taken off or it’s high in the sky and the viewer is looking up at its belly. Continue reading
Great Horned Owl – A Bird I Gambled On And Lost Photographing birds is often a game of playing the odds. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Continue reading