Western Grebe Still Incubating Eggs Yesterday Morning Seems to me that these grebes are cutting the nesting season window a little tight. Continue reading
Gray Catbird In Flight ‘He’ may not be pretty but none of us look our best all of the time. Hell, you oughta see me as I type this at 5 AM. Continue reading
Downy Woodpecker On Mullein I thought mullein was an unusual perch for the species but I guess Downy Woodpeckers aren’t picky about where they find their ‘bugs’. Continue reading
Yellow Warblers On Thistle Thistle, especially when flowering, can provide an attractive setting for bird photographs but it does have its challenges. Continue reading
Juvenile Mountain Bluebird Exploring A Gnarly Old Fence Post The combination of innocence, curiosity and exuberance in very young birds can be fun to watch, if difficult to explain. 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
Juvenile Mountain Bluebird – An Aborted Takeoff Or Something Else? Sometimes it’s hard to assign motivation or intention to a behavior, especially when it involves an ungainly and inexperienced young bird. Continue reading
Juvenile Mountain Bluebirds On Three Different Natural Perches Plus an adult male ‘wearing to dark’. Continue reading
Male Western Tanager Perched And Then Coming Straight At Me A species I’ve had very little luck with this year but yesterday morning my track record with them ticked up a little higher. Continue reading
More Belted Kingfisher Reactions To A Barn Swallow Attack Same kingfisher and swallow as before but this time both the perch and background are different and the setting is much less cluttered. Continue reading
Willow Flycatcher Up Close And a better explanation of why I like to crop significantly to get even better detail in my sharper images. Continue reading
Barn Swallow Repeatedly Attacking A Belted Kingfisher A couple of weeks ago I documented a Belted Kingfisher being repeatedly attacked by a Barn Swallow. Yesterday morning it happened again but this time I managed to get the attacking swallow in several of the photos. Continue reading
House Finch – How In The World Do Birds Do Stuff Like This? Yet another example of the almost unbelievable athleticism of birds. Continue reading
Twelve-spotted Skimmer – ‘Macro’ Photography With A Telephoto Lens Something a little different from me this morning. Quite a bit different, actually. Continue reading
Willow Flycatcher – One Of The Aggravating Empids A species deserving of more attention than it gets. Continue reading