An Unusual Encounter With A Northern Harrier And A Junco
Both of these birds did something out of the ordinary as they interacted with each other and with me.
Category: Favorite Locations
A Couple Of Willet Takeoffs
Long-billed Curlew Courtship Displays
These curlews performed some intense and protracted courtship displays that were fascinating to watch and photograph.
Bathing Meadowlark – It Pays To Learn To Anticipate Behavior
Predicting the behavior of this Western Meadowlark allowed me to get a boat-load of very interesting action shots.
A Meadowlark Takeoff And Those Demonic Biting Gnats On Antelope Island
Bird photography is difficult enough without the added aggravation of hordes of biting insects.
Sage Thrasher Bilateral Wing Display
For the bird species I typically photograph the courtship displays of Sage Thrashers are unique.
A Chukar Grazing Enthusiastically On Grass
Chukars actually eat and digest grass. When you think about it that’s a pretty neat trick.
Male Long-billed Curlew Attempting To Mount A Female
Forster’s Tern Performing A Hovering Ballet
One day I’d like to see slow-motion video of a hovering tern. In the meantime sequences like this will have to do.
Curlews – I’m Changing My Ways When Photographing Them At Takeoff
Some Good News For Burrowing Owls
Some very good people are helping Burrowing Owls return to British Columbia, Canada and some of my images will play a small part in that effort.
Long-billed Curlew Eating A Horned Lark Egg
Yesterday morning this curlew gave me a lesson on what “opportunistic foraging” really means.
A Few Recent Birds and Field Observations
Today’s post is a mixed bag of recent birds I’ve photographed and some observations (with photos) from the field.
Some Birds From Yesterday
A Nervous Northern Flicker
There can be significant drama in the back story of an image that we miss when looking at a single photo.
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A Couple Of Willet Takeoffs
Long-billed Curlew Courtship Displays
These curlews performed some intense and protracted courtship displays that were fascinating to watch and photograph.
Bathing Meadowlark – It Pays To Learn To Anticipate Behavior
Predicting the behavior of this Western Meadowlark allowed me to get a boat-load of very interesting action shots.
A Meadowlark Takeoff And Those Demonic Biting Gnats On Antelope Island
Bird photography is difficult enough without the added aggravation of hordes of biting insects.
Sage Thrasher Bilateral Wing Display
For the bird species I typically photograph the courtship displays of Sage Thrashers are unique.
A Chukar Grazing Enthusiastically On Grass
Chukars actually eat and digest grass. When you think about it that’s a pretty neat trick.
Male Long-billed Curlew Attempting To Mount A Female
Forster’s Tern Performing A Hovering Ballet
One day I’d like to see slow-motion video of a hovering tern. In the meantime sequences like this will have to do.
Curlews – I’m Changing My Ways When Photographing Them At Takeoff
Some Good News For Burrowing Owls
Some very good people are helping Burrowing Owls return to British Columbia, Canada and some of my images will play a small part in that effort.
Long-billed Curlew Eating A Horned Lark Egg
Yesterday morning this curlew gave me a lesson on what “opportunistic foraging” really means.
A Few Recent Birds and Field Observations
Today’s post is a mixed bag of recent birds I’ve photographed and some observations (with photos) from the field.
Some Birds From Yesterday
A Nervous Northern Flicker
There can be significant drama in the back story of an image that we miss when looking at a single photo.