Yesterday My Blog Followers Gave Me A Case Of The Warm Fuzzies It’s kind of a long and convoluted story but it deserves to be told. (3 photos) Continue reading
Bald Eagle Hunting Ducks When they’re not scavenging for food Bald Eagles can be fierce and opportunistic predators. But they’re big and relatively slow so catching live prey isn’t easy for them. Continue reading
A Second Banded Male American Kestrel On Antelope Island And now I know the banding info about this kestrel too. Continue reading
Northern Shovelers Flying In Formation Speedy and erratic ducks in flight are a good test for a new camera. (3 images) Continue reading
Western Meadowlark Singing On Sagebrush (plus a video experiment) Around here it isn’t springtime without singing meadowlarks. Yesterday I photographed my first one this year that was reasonably close. Continue reading
Bald Eagle In Flight With Two Green-winged Teals In Its Crosshairs Bald Eagle + thousands of ducks = instant pandemonium. Continue reading
A Willet And A Quirky Surprise I’ve only seen something like this happen once and I’ll almost certainly never see it again. Continue reading
Tundra Swan Running From Ice To Water During Takeoff – A Series And trying to correct an old bad habit. Continue reading
Rough-legged Hawk Perched On A Tumbleweed For this Montana farm boy tumbleweeds symbolize the Old West. As a kid I probably watched too many Western movies. Continue reading
Yesterday’s American Kestrel Was Banded By HawkWatch International I heard back from HWI already. (2 photos, 2 maps) Continue reading
Tundra Swan Up Close And In A Big Hurry The abrupt transition from running on ice to running on water must have been a challenge for such a huge bird. Continue reading