Prairie Falcon Struggling With Large Prey
A Northern Shoveler is unusually large prey for a Prairie Falcon but this young female pulled off the kill in spectacular fashion.
Category: Birds
Juvenile Mountain Bluebird – An Aborted Takeoff Or Something Else?
Sometimes it’s hard to assign motivation or intention to a behavior, especially when it involves an ungainly and inexperienced young bird.
Sorry, No Birds Today But I Have An Excuse
Loggerhead Shrikes, Spiders And Great Salt Lake Institute
Spotted Sandpiper Chick Learning Fast
A single day can make a big difference in the learning curve of a very young Spotted Sandpiper.
Juvenile Mountain Bluebirds On Three Different Natural Perches
A Male Lazuli Bunting Doing A Kingfisher Impersonation
Willow Flycatcher – Now That’s A Pretty Neat Trick
I’m regularly dazzled by the athletic abilities of birds. It happened again yesterday and this time it involved prey.
Male Western Tanager Perched And Then Coming Straight At Me
A species I’ve had very little luck with this year but yesterday morning my track record with them ticked up a little higher.
More Belted Kingfisher Reactions To A Barn Swallow Attack
Same kingfisher and swallow as before but this time both the perch and background are different and the setting is much less cluttered.
Willow Flycatcher Up Close
And a better explanation of why I like to crop significantly to get even better detail in my sharper images.
American Goldfinches Don’t Eat Insects. Or Do They…
American Goldfinches aren’t supposed to be insect eaters but apparently this male didn’t get the memo.
Yellow Warbler On Thistle
Barn Swallow Repeatedly Attacking A Belted Kingfisher
A couple of weeks ago I documented a Belted Kingfisher being repeatedly attacked by a Barn Swallow. Yesterday morning it happened again but this time I managed to get the attacking swallow in several of the photos.
Wilson’s Phalaropes Along The Antelope Island Causeway
Yet another bird that takes advantage of the Great Salt Lake’s brine flies and brine shrimp as a food source and they do so in huge numbers.
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Juvenile Mountain Bluebird – An Aborted Takeoff Or Something Else?
Sometimes it’s hard to assign motivation or intention to a behavior, especially when it involves an ungainly and inexperienced young bird.
Sorry, No Birds Today But I Have An Excuse
Loggerhead Shrikes, Spiders And Great Salt Lake Institute
Spotted Sandpiper Chick Learning Fast
A single day can make a big difference in the learning curve of a very young Spotted Sandpiper.
Juvenile Mountain Bluebirds On Three Different Natural Perches
A Male Lazuli Bunting Doing A Kingfisher Impersonation
Willow Flycatcher – Now That’s A Pretty Neat Trick
I’m regularly dazzled by the athletic abilities of birds. It happened again yesterday and this time it involved prey.
Male Western Tanager Perched And Then Coming Straight At Me
A species I’ve had very little luck with this year but yesterday morning my track record with them ticked up a little higher.
More Belted Kingfisher Reactions To A Barn Swallow Attack
Same kingfisher and swallow as before but this time both the perch and background are different and the setting is much less cluttered.
Willow Flycatcher Up Close
And a better explanation of why I like to crop significantly to get even better detail in my sharper images.
American Goldfinches Don’t Eat Insects. Or Do They…
American Goldfinches aren’t supposed to be insect eaters but apparently this male didn’t get the memo.
Yellow Warbler On Thistle
Barn Swallow Repeatedly Attacking A Belted Kingfisher
A couple of weeks ago I documented a Belted Kingfisher being repeatedly attacked by a Barn Swallow. Yesterday morning it happened again but this time I managed to get the attacking swallow in several of the photos.
Wilson’s Phalaropes Along The Antelope Island Causeway
Yet another bird that takes advantage of the Great Salt Lake’s brine flies and brine shrimp as a food source and they do so in huge numbers.