A Cedar Waxwing In Flight And The Scourge Of The Shadows The best laid plans of mice and men and bird photographers… Continue reading
Rufous Hummingbird In Flight Against A Clean Background But still with plenty of attractive, natural habitat. Continue reading
Green-tailed Towhee Having The Epitome Of A Bad Hair Day I think ‘bad hair day’ is an overused phrase but sometimes no other phrase will do. Continue reading
Hummingbird Wars In The Mountains Yesterday Morning The wildfire smoke finally subsided enough for me to get up into the mountains yesterday. Once again hummingbirds were on the agenda and this time they were really feeling their oats…err, nectar. Continue reading
Do Hummingbirds Cast Pellets? Yesterday morning I may have photographed a hummingbird casting tiny pellets. I’d never heard of such a thing in hummers. Continue reading
Rufous Hummingbirds Like Amaranth Too They just like it for different reasons than most other birds. Continue reading
This Is What An Unlucky Morning Photographing Kingfishers Looks Like The potential was there but except for some interesting behavior near the end I might as well have stayed home. Continue reading
Western Grebe – Me And My Shadow An older photo I’d forgotten even existed. Plus a report on our current drought and the disappearing Great Salt Lake. Continue reading
Yellow Warbler Ascending A short trip for a young warbler. A meaningless journey to us perhaps but apparently it was significant for the bird. Continue reading
Gray Catbirds With Spiders On The Menu Arachnids for breakfast. Have you ever wondered what spiders taste like? Continue reading
Male Yellow Warbler – Fluffed Up, Singing and… Happy? Here we go again. You know, that anthropomorphism thing. Continue reading
Long-billed Curlew Courtship Display – Bill-stroking An intimate curlew behavior I’ve only seen once and I was lucky enough to document it with photos. Continue reading
Male Belted Kingfisher Reacting To A Swallow Attack His reactions seemed a little overdramatic if you ask me. After all, kingfishers are 9 times larger (heavier) than Cliff Swallows. Continue reading