The Injured Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk This is the injured young Swainson’s Hawk that I’ve mentioned in previous posts. Continue reading
Back-To-Back American Kestrels – Male And Female With Prey I got relatively close to two kestrels, a male and a female, both with prey, within four minutes. Miracles do happen… Continue reading
Red-tailed Hawks Fighting Amongst The Wires Skirmishing raptors are always fun to photograph, even when there are wires in the way. Continue reading
Barbed Wire Barn Owl Released Back Into The Wild (with photos) Yesterday was the long-awaited day. Continue reading
Western Grebe And Three Chicks – No Room On The Taxi When Western Grebe chicks get large enough, back brooding all the siblings becomes problematic. Continue reading
A Couple Of My Nemesis Birds – Belted Kingfisher and Sora For me a “nemesis bird” is a species I haven’t been able to get any (or very few) decent photos of. Recently I had some luck with two of them in that category. Continue reading
Juvenile and Adult Swainson’s Hawks – A Feeding Session Things got a little frenzied when one of the adult Swainson’s Hawks would bring a vole in to feed their juvenile offspring. Continue reading
A Western Sandpiper, Shutter Speeds And Another Quirk Of Reflections Here’s another reason I like to use relatively fast shutter speeds when photographing birds.. Continue reading
Least Sandpiper – Dang, They’re Tiny! In fact the Least Sandpiper is the smallest shorebird in the world. Continue reading
Snowy Egret – A Twisting, Turning Takeoff (and a defense of “common species”) I suppose that my post this morning is my petulant way of responding to something I saw posted on Facebook last night that raised my hackles a bit. Continue reading