Wilson’s Snipes – A Weird, Repeated Behavior And A Possible Explanation I’d never seen anything quite like this before, from any species. (13 photos) Continue reading
My Morning With Wilson’s Snipes – More Photos And More Of The Details Snipes galore. (18 photos) Continue reading
Wilson’s Snipes – A Photo Sampler Of My Best Day In The Field In A Very Long Time Yesterday morning I had more fun with Wilson’s Snipes than is usually legal in Utah. (5 photos) Continue reading
Double-crested Cormorant – An Irritating Inconvenience And Then A Bath I love documenting bird behaviors, even the mundane ones. (13 photos) Continue reading
Belted Kingfisher, Up Close And Preening Tweaking an image to get a background I like using methods I’m comfortable with. (2 versions of the same photo) Continue reading
Two Cormorants And A Pelican – A Near Head-on Collision In Flight If there’s a possibility you’re going to collide head-on with another bird in flight, you don’t want it to be with a 16 lb. pelican. (4 photos) Continue reading
Swainson’s Hawks – Sleeping Unihemispherically? A pretty nifty trick that even allows birds to sleep while they’re migrating over water. (6 photos) Continue reading
Green-tailed Towhee Making Me Wonder If I Was Losing My Marbles For a few seconds I was as confused as I’ve ever been with a camera in my hand. (3 photos) Continue reading
Finally, A Juvenile Male Black-chinned Hummingbird Including some of the stinging insects hummingbirds encounter while they’re nectaring on flowers. (6 photos) Continue reading
More Western And Clark’s Grebes Back-brooding Babies Young grebe chicks are nearly always entertaining, for the viewer and for themselves. (3 photos) Continue reading
Drake Cinnamon Teal ‘Puddle Jumping’ A puddle jumper doing what puddle jumpers do. (10 photos) Continue reading
Female Mountain Bluebird Showing Her Mate Who’s Boss Including some behavior I don’t understand. Continue reading
Yellow-headed Blackbird Mystery Behavior I’ve spent a lot of time around birds over the years and this combination of behaviors was a new one for me, for any species. (7 photos) Continue reading
The Songs Of A Mockingbird Something a little different from me today. (1 photo, 3 video clips) Continue reading