Same Broad-tailed Hummingbird As Yesterday, Different Attack Takeoff Including one photo where his gorget is fully lit up in all its glory. (5 photos) Continue reading
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird In Full Attack Mode At Takeoff A photo I’ve lusted after for a very long time. (2 photos) Continue reading
Common Loon Threat Display And Victory Wing Flap Loon fights can be deadly. Thankfully, this one wasn’t. (2 photos) Continue reading
An Aerial Kerfuffle Between A Hapless And Vulnerable Northern Harrier And American Crows Serious aerial combat or more light-hearted play? In this case I strongly suspect the former. (3 photos) Continue reading
Two Interesting Coots From Yesterday – One Angry, The Other Dramatically Leucistic The strangest looking coot I’ve ever seen. (3 photos) Continue reading
Magpies Bickering Over A Dead Rabbit On A Bitterly Cold Morning There seems to be a bully in every crowd. (2 photos) Continue reading
An Angry American Coot American Coots are universally described as quarrelsome and belligerent but this time of year they crank it up a notch. Or two. (three photos) Continue reading
Rough-legged Hawk Aerial Dogfight My first Rough-legged Hawk photos of the season. (3 photos) Continue reading
A Red-tailed Hawk, An Aggressive Magpie And A Prized Rabbit Leg A behavioral series I thought was interesting. (8 photos) Continue reading
Immature Red-tailed Hawk In The Crosshairs Of An American Kestrel Except for one quick trip to Farmington Bay WMA, yesterday was my first time out photographing birds in 41 days while I’ve been recovering from back surgery. If felt good. Very good. (2 photos) Continue reading
Snowy Egrets Squabbling And Fighting Our heat dome is finally gone so yesterday morning I got to play with fighting Snowy Egrets in deliciously cool weather. (7 photos) Continue reading
Northern Harrier Harassing A Red-tailed Hawk The red-tail wasn’t there and then poof, there he was. (5 photos) Continue reading
Male Mountain Bluebird Attacking His Own Reflection, Part II The rest of the story. I know, I’ve been telling a lot of “rest of the stories” lately. Continue reading