Meadowlark Stuff Five days ago was a Western Meadowlark kind of day on Antelope Island. (7 photos) Continue reading
Common Raven ‘Skip-launch’ A takeoff technique that has almost been patented by ravens. (8 photos) Continue reading
White-faced Ibis On Landing Approach With the Canon R5 I’m getting significantly more grab shots of birds in flight than I used to. (3 photos) Continue reading
Burrowing Owl Blunder After more than 15 years of photographing birds I’m still fine tuning my field ethics. (4 photos) Continue reading
American Kestrel – “AOM” Is Still Thriving I had a productive morning on Antelope Island yesterday, including seeing, hearing and/or photographing multiple bird species for the first time this year. (3 photos) Continue reading
Black Necked Stilts – Mating Rituals And Copulation This was my first observation of mating birds of any species this season. As you can imagine, it made my day. (16 photos) Continue reading
Drake Northern Shoveler In Flight It’s springtime so things are getting exciting at our bird refuges. Continue reading
Black-crowned Night Heron In Flight Series Sometimes ‘grab shots’ turn out better than I expect them to. (3 photos) Continue reading
Yellow-headed Blackbird “Singing”, Taking Off And In Flight The Neil Young bird. (3 photos) Continue reading
Western Grebes, An Optical Illusion And An Unusual Behavior A ‘twofer’ that includes an optical illusion and a behavior that was new to me in the same series of images. (10 photos) Continue reading
The Importance Of Getting Bids On Projects Today you get bids instead of birds. (2 photos) Continue reading
Some Recent Birds And Some Minor Grossness The “minor grossness” partially explains why I I’ve been posting to Feathered Photography less often recently. (6 photos) Continue reading
Just Before A Meadowlark Takeoff, Problem Mysteriously Solved The Canon R5’s animal/eye detection isn’t infallible but sometimes it surprises me with an incredibly quick recovery. (3 photos) Continue reading
Fighting Chukars Normally I try to avoid publishing photos of the same species in back-to-back posts but I’ll make an exception for a Chukar fight. (5 photos) Continue reading