Two More Red-tailed Hawk Chicks Have Fledged
With the tough times raptors and other birds are going through these days two more successfully fledged Red-tailed Hawks is good news indeed.
Category: Feeding
Newly Fledged Yellow Warbler
Short-eared Owl In Flight With Prey Being Chased By Another Owl
A double dose of serendipity with the two related events being separated from each other by eight years. To the day.
Western Tanager With A Bug
The tanagers often manipulated their insect prey in their bills for quite a while before gulping it down and I wondered why
Yellow Warbler Foraging And Singing Enthusiastically
Western Grebe Trickery – Turnabout Is Fair Play
Personally I think the male of this pair got exactly what he deserved. Tit for tat.
The Dramatic Size Difference Between Parasitic Cowbirds And Their Host Species
The difference in size isn’t always this extreme but it can be even more dramatic than some of the examples I’ve included here.
Yesterday I Had A Two Merlin Morning At Bear River MBR
On average I photograph Merlins less often than once per year so to get two of them in my viewfinder on the same morning was a momentous occasion.
Yellow Warbler Singing
After the unpleasantness of yesterday’s blog post I needed something fresh and cheerful to get the bad taste out of my mouth. For me a singing warbler will do it every time.
Male Northern Harrier Trying To Flush A Vole From The Grass
Female Hooded Merganser With A Weather Loach
A sudden wind gust can sure raise havoc with the results of a recent trip to the beauty salon.
Northern Harrier In Flight At Farmington
Rough-legged Hawk – Sometimes The Prey Bites Back, Even In Flight
When Rough-legged Hawks dive on prey they can appear to hit the ground so hard they vicariously rattle my teeth and I almost expect them to bounce on impact.
Bald Eagle Withdrawal
The Killing Bite Of The American Kestrel
Voles are by far the most common prey item I see American Kestrels with but occasionally I find them with a mouse or a small bird. This time, on a cold and snowy morning at Farmington Bay WMA, it was a mouse and it was still very much alive.
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Newly Fledged Yellow Warbler
Short-eared Owl In Flight With Prey Being Chased By Another Owl
A double dose of serendipity with the two related events being separated from each other by eight years. To the day.
Western Tanager With A Bug
The tanagers often manipulated their insect prey in their bills for quite a while before gulping it down and I wondered why
Yellow Warbler Foraging And Singing Enthusiastically
Western Grebe Trickery – Turnabout Is Fair Play
Personally I think the male of this pair got exactly what he deserved. Tit for tat.
The Dramatic Size Difference Between Parasitic Cowbirds And Their Host Species
The difference in size isn’t always this extreme but it can be even more dramatic than some of the examples I’ve included here.
Yesterday I Had A Two Merlin Morning At Bear River MBR
On average I photograph Merlins less often than once per year so to get two of them in my viewfinder on the same morning was a momentous occasion.
Yellow Warbler Singing
After the unpleasantness of yesterday’s blog post I needed something fresh and cheerful to get the bad taste out of my mouth. For me a singing warbler will do it every time.
Male Northern Harrier Trying To Flush A Vole From The Grass
Female Hooded Merganser With A Weather Loach
A sudden wind gust can sure raise havoc with the results of a recent trip to the beauty salon.
Northern Harrier In Flight At Farmington
Rough-legged Hawk – Sometimes The Prey Bites Back, Even In Flight
When Rough-legged Hawks dive on prey they can appear to hit the ground so hard they vicariously rattle my teeth and I almost expect them to bounce on impact.
Bald Eagle Withdrawal
The Killing Bite Of The American Kestrel
Voles are by far the most common prey item I see American Kestrels with but occasionally I find them with a mouse or a small bird. This time, on a cold and snowy morning at Farmington Bay WMA, it was a mouse and it was still very much alive.