Male American Kestrel Getting Some Tail When you’re a small falcon trying to survive in the wild you can’t be too picky about what you’re willing to eat. Continue reading
Williamson’s Sapsuckers Performing Their Endless Domestic Duties For this species raising chicks is an unusually exhausting job. Continue reading
Black-billed Magpie In A Laborious Ascent Flying is a lot of work and sometimes it results in surprisingly little aerial progress. Continue reading
Fighting Wild Horses Of The Onaqui Herd I’ve never been more intimidated in the field with a camera in my hand than I was at this moment. Continue reading
A Massive Ferruginous Hawk Nest, Including A Chick And to think that we thought Red-tailed Hawk nests take a lot of work to build. A typical red-tail nest pales in comparison to this one. Continue reading
Male Red-tailed Hawk Struggling To Gather Nesting Material Hard work and a stubborn streak eventually paid off when the male of the pair went looking for suitable nest-building materials. Continue reading
Ferruginous Hawk Carrying Unusual Nesting Material Straight At Me I still don’t know what the nesting material was. Continue reading
Mated Red-tailed Hawks And The Fleeting Nature Of The ‘Golden Hour’ Harsh midday light is not the photographer’s friend but the warm glow of the ‘golden hour’ is transitory and often elusive, especially if you aren’t a ‘morning person’. Continue reading
Red-tailed Hawks Are In Nesting Mode, Big Time Red-tails are pairing up all over the place. Continue reading
Red-naped Sapsuckers – Dietary Preferences And Breaking Bad Habits When I’m in the field photographing birds I have to constantly remind myself to avoid making assumptions. Continue reading
Mealworms – Are They Safe As Bird Food? This is what happens when false and misleading information is widely distributed amongst the bird-loving community. Or any community for that matter. Continue reading
Female Short-eared Owl And Chick Near Their Nest A type of photo I rarely post. Or even take. Continue reading
Young Loggerhead Shrike Practicing His Prey-impaling Skills A fascinating behavior that humans seldom see. I’ve only observed it twice. Continue reading
Badger Preying On Some Of Its Close Relatives – Long-tailed Weasels Serious conflict between some of the largest and smallest of the mustelids. Continue reading